4 August
19 commemorations of 4 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 17 August of the civil calendar.
Saints
- The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus
- Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine), and Antoninus (250 and ca. 446)
- Martyr Eleutherius of Byzantium (early 4th century)ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Thathuil, by hanging from an apple treeὉ Ἅγιος Θαθουὴλ ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Martyr Eudokia (Ia) of Anatolia, in Persia, by beheading (362) and 9,000 with her in Persia (363)Ἡ Ὁσία Εὐδοκία ἡ Μάρτυς καὶ ἡ ἀνακομιδὴ τῶν λειψάνων τηςsynaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- New Hieromartyr Cosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas (Prozgrov) (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Michael (Zhuk), Hieromonk of Staroye Zubarevo in Mordovia, and Martyrs Simeon and Demetrius Vorobiev of Tver (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
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 Perpetua, a matron from Rome baptised by the Apostle Peter who converted her husband and her son, St Nazarius (c. 80)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Saint Agabius, Bishop of Verona in Italy, and Confessor (c. 250)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Tertullinus, a priest, martyred in Rome under Valerian two days after his ordination (257)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Epiphanes and Isidore, two early martyrs, venerated at the Cathedral of Besançon in France until the French Revolutionorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Protasius, a martyr honoured in Cologne in GermanyRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sithney (Sezni), patron saint of Sithney, Cornwall (c. 529)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Euphronius of Tours, Bishop of Tours in France (573)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Peregrinus, Maceratus and Viventius (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Lugid of Killaloe (Lua, Molua), a disciple of St Comgall, founded many monasteries (c. 609)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.
- Consecration of the sacred temple of the Christ the Saviour, within the Pantocrator Monastery in ConstantinopleἘγκαίνια Ἱεροῦ Ναοῦ Σωτῆρος Χριστοῦ τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Παντοκράτορος στὴν Κωνσταντινούποληsynaxarion.gr
- "Kazan-Penza" (Kazan of Penza) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1717)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Saint Alexei Bortsurmansky (1848)azbyka.ru
The list is August 4 (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.