2 Августа 1973 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Thursday, August 2, 1973 (July 20, 1973 by the Julian calendar)
7^th Week after Pentecost, Tone five

+ Holy Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah) (9th c. B.C.). New Hieromartyrs Constantine and Nicolos priests (1918). New Hieromartyrs Alexander, George, John, John, Sergius and Theodore priests, Hieromartyrs Tykhon, George, Cosmas and Martyrs Euphimius and Peter (1930). St. Abramius of Galich or Chukhloma Lake (1375), disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Uncovering of the relics of St. Athanasius, abbot, of Brest-Litovsk (1649). Priest Philosoph Ornalsky and those with him (1918), Juvenal, deacon (1919). "Galich-Chukhlomsk" "Tenderness" (1350) and "Abalatsk" ("Sign") (1637) Icons of the Mother of God. Sts. Elias and Flavius, confessors, patriarchs of Jerusalem and Antioch (518). St. Elias (Chavchavadze) of Georgia (1907). St. Ethelwida, widow of King Alfred the Great (9th c.) (Celtic & British). New Martyrs Lydia, and with her, soldiers Alexei and Cyril (1928). St. Alexis Medvedkov, archpriest of Uzine (1934), Elias Fondaminskii (1942), Priest Demetrius Klepinine (1944), George Skobtsov (1944), and Nun Maria (Skobtsova) (1945), of Paris. Martyr Salome of Jerusalem and Kartli, who suffered under the Persians (13th c.).