Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- Translation of the relics of Protomartyr StephenTranslation of relics
- Blessed Vasily, Fool-for-ChristFool for Christ
- Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome (257), and those with himHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 257
- Holy Glorious New Martyr Theodore of DardanellesNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
- Phocas the MartyrMartyr
- Plegmund, Archbishop of CanterburyHierarch
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 2 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 15 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.