3 August
23 commemorations of 3 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 16 August of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome (1st century)Ἡ Ἁγία Σαλώμη ἡ Μυροφόροςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome, and Companions (257)Ὁ Ἅγιος Στέφανος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Πάπας Ρώμης καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable Saints Isaac (383), Dalmatius, and Faustus (5th century), ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery at ConstantinopleΟἱ Ὅσιοι Δαλμάτιος, Φαῦστος, καὶ Ἰσαάκιοςsynaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Protomartyr Rajden (Razhdenes) of Tsromi and Nikozi, Georgia (457)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Cosmas of Palestine, eunuch and hermit (6th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Olympios the Prefect (Olympius the Eparch), Byzantine noble martyred under the Persian King Chosroes II for confessing the Orthodox Faith (c. 610-641)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ὀλύμπιος ὁ ἔπαρχος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint John of Patalaria Monastery, Confessor and Abbot (8th-9th centuries)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Ὁμολογητὴς ἡγούμενος τῆς Μονῆς Πατελαρίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theoclite the Wonderworker, of Optimaton (Theme of the Optimatoi) (ca. 842)Ἡ Ὁσία Θεοκλητῶ ἡ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints John the Monastic, and John the New, Bishops of EphesusΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωάννης καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ Νέος Ἐπίσκοποι Ἐφέσουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Venerable Nuns Theodora, and Theopisti her daughter, of Aegina, in Thessaloniki (892)Οἱ Ὁσίες Θεοδώρα καὶ Θεοπίστη ἡ θυγατέρα της ἐξ Αἰγίνηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Anthony the Roman, Abbot in Novgorod (1147)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ρωμαῖος ἐκ Νοβογορδίας (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Nine Kherkheulidze brothers, their mother and sister, and 9,000 others, who suffered on the field of Marabda, Georgia (1625)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Iraclie (Flocea) of Bessarabia, Protosyncellus, exarch of the monasteries of the Archdiocese of Chișinău (1964)basilica.ro · orthochristian.com
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Viacheslav Lukanin, Deacon (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Pomerantsev, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Aspren (Aspronas), Bishop of Naples (1st century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Euphronius, Bishop of Autun in France and a friend of St Lupus of Troyes, Confessor (c. 475)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Trea, hermitess, converted to Orthodoxy by St Patrick, she spent the rest of her life as an anchoress in Ardtree, now in County Londonderry, Northern... (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Faustus, son of St Dalmatius of Pavia in Italy, lived the life of a holy monk (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Senach (Snach), a disciple of St Finian and his successor as Abbot of Clonard in Ireland (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Benno, hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, a founder of the monastery of Einsiedeln, became Bishop of Metz in 927 (940)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gregory of Nonantula, Abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy (933)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Ignatius of Harbin (1958)pravoslavie.ru
The list is August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.