29 August
24 commemorations of 29 August in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 11 September of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. John the Forerunner (the Baptist)
Saints
- The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (ca. 28)Ἀποτομὴ Κεφαλῆς Ἰωάννου Προδρόμουorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Candida (418) and Gelasia (422), of Constantinopleholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Theodora, nun, of Thessaloniki, who was from Aegina (892)Ἡ Ὁσία Θεοδώρα ἡ ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Arcadius of Arsinoe, Cyprus, Bishop and WonderworkerὉ Ἅγιος Ἀρκάδιος ὁ Θαυματουργός Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀρσινόης Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Basil I the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor (886)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βασίλειος ὁ Μακεδὼν ὁ αὐτοκράτοραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th century)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Peter Reshetnikov, Priest of Perm (1918)
- New Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1936)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Martyr Theodore Ivanov of Tobolsk (1937)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 Sabina, matron and martyr from Rome (c. 126)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sabina of Troyes, by tradition the sister of St Sabinian of Troyes in France where she was venerated together with him (c. 275)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Candida, one of a group of martyrs who suffered on the Ostian Way outside the gates of Romeorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Euthymius, a Roman who fled to Perugia in Italy with his wife and his child, St Crescentius, during the persecution of Diocletian (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Adelphus, an early Bishop of Metz and Confessor (5th century)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Sæbbi of Essex (Sebbi, Sebba), King of Essex and monk (c. 694)Ὁ Ἅγιος Sebbi (Ἄγγλος)synaxarion.gr · Roman Martyrology · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Medericus (Merry), a monk at St Martin's in Autun, where he eventually became abbot (c. 700)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Velleicus (Willeic), born in England, he followed St Swithbert to Germany and became Abbot of Kaiserswerth (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Eadwold of Cerne (Edwold), hermit at Cerne in Dorset in England (9th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alberic, a monk who lived at Bagno de Romagua in Italy (1050)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.
- Commemoration of all Orthodox soldiers killed on the field of battleholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Translation of the relics (1699) of St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Hiero-Schemamonk Poemen of Cernica (1831)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Righteous Pachomius the Silent, of Valdai Monastery (1886)pravoslavie.ru
The list is August 29 (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.