July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 10 by Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For July 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 15.

Saints[]

• Holy Apostles of the Seventy and Deacons (1st century):^{[1][2][3][4][5][note 2]}

• Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, and Parmenas.

• Martyr Julian of Dalmatia (c. 138-161)^[1][6][7][8]
• Martyr Eustathius the Soldier, of Ancyra (c. 316)^{[1][3][5][9][10][note 3]}
• Martyr Acacius of Miletus (c. 321)^{[1][3][5][12][13][note 4]}
• Martyr Drosis (Drosida, Drosa), by being cast into a golden crucible.^{[3][5][14][15][note 5]} (see also: March 22)
• Martyr Auxentios, of Laodicea in Phrygia.^[15][16]
• Venerable Irene Chrysovolantou of Cappadocia, Abbess of Chrysovalantou (912)^{[1][3][5][6][17][18][19][note 6][note 7][note 8]}
• Venerable Paul of Xeropotamou, on Mount Athos (820 or 996)^{[1][3][5][6][8][21][22]}
• Saint George the Builder, of Iveron, Mt. Athos (1029 or 1033)^[1][6][23]

Pre-Schism Western saints[]

• Martyrs Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs in Milan in Italy under Nero (c. 68)^{[24][25][note 9]} (see also: October 14)
• Saint Victor I, born in North Africa, he was Pope of Rome for ten years from 189-198 (198)^{[24][26][note 10]}
• Saint Peregrinus, a priest near Lyons in France at the time of St Irenaeus and during the persecution under Severus (2nd century)^{[24][note 11][note 12]}
• Saint Innocent I, Pope of Rome from 402 till 417 (417)^{[24][27][note 13][note 14]}
• Saint Camelian, successor of St Lupus as Bishop of Troyes in France from 478 (c. 525)^[24]
• Saints Ursus and Leobatius (Leubais), Brother-Abbots, of Gaul (c. 500)^[1][6] (see also: July 30)
• Saint Samson of Dol, Bishop of Dol, in Brittany (c. 565)^{[1][5][6][24][28][29][30][note 15][note 16]}
• Saint Arduinus (Ardwyne), patron-saint of Trepino in the south of Italy (7th century)^{[24][28][note 17][note 18]}
• Saint Lucidus of Aquara, a monk of St Peter's near Aquara, in the south of Italy (c. 938)^{[24][note 19]}
• Saint Lyutius, a monk at Montecassino who died as a hermit at La Cava Abbey in Italy (c. 1038)^[24]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints[]

• Venerable Moses of the Kiev Caves, Wonderworker (13th-14th centuries)^{[1][5][6][8][15][31][note 20]}
• Saint Anthony, Bishop of Rostov, Yaroslavl, and Belozersk (1336)^[1]
• New Martyr David of Aleppo (1660)^[1]
• Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov (1698)^{[5][6][8][32][33][note 21]}
• New Martyr Christodoulos of Kassandreia (1777)^{[3][5][6][34]}

New martyrs and confessors[]

• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Ponomarev, Deacon (1918)^[6][8]
• New Hieromartyr Basil (Erekaev), Hieromonk of Sarov Monastery (1937)^[1][6][35]
• Virgin-martyrs Anastasia Kamaeva^[36] and Helen Astashkina^[37] (1937)^[6]
• Martyrs Aretha Yeriomkin,^[38] John Lomakin,^[39] John Selmanov,^[40] John Milioshkin^[41] (1937)^[6]
• Virgin-martyr Maura Moisieva (1937)^[6][8]
• New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Bazyluk) of Jabłeczna, in Chelm and Podlasie, Poland (1942)^{[1][6][note 22]} (see also: August 9)

Other commemorations[]

• Consecration the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Quarter of Deaconess.^[5][15][42]
• Synaxis of the Saints of Tambov (1988)^{[1][6][43][note 23]}
• Repose of Abbess Daria of Sezenovo Convent (1858)^{[1][note 24]}

Icons[]

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Directress of Smolensk", brought from Constantinople (1046)^{[1][5][6][44][note 25]}
• Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Grebensk" (1380),^[45] "Kostroma" (1672), and "Umileniye" ("of Tender Feeling") of Diveyevo Convent (1885),^{[1][5][8][46]} before which St. Seraphim reposed.^[6][8]
• Reverence list of an "Smolensk" Icon of the Mother of God:^[6][8]

• "Ustiug" (1290)
• "Vidropusskaya" (15th century)^[47]
• "Voronin" (1524)
• "Xristoforov" (16th century)
• "Suprasl", Poland (16th century)^[1][8][48]
• "Yugskaya" (1615)
• "Igritsky" (1624)^[49]
• "Shuiskaya" (1654-55)
• "Sedmiezersk" (Seven Lakes) (17th century)^[1]
• "Sergievsk" (Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra) (1730)

Icon gallery[]

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  St. John the Evangelist with Prochorus.

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  St. Nicanor the Deacon.

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  Venerable Irene Chrysovolantou of Cappadocia.

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  Venerable Paul of Xeropotamou, on Mount Athos.

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  Martyr Nazarius.

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  St. Samson of Dol, Bishop of Dol, in Brittany.

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  Venerable Moses the Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves.

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  Saint Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov.

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  New Hieromartyr Ignatius (Bazyluk).

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  Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (Dionisius the Wise, 1482).

Notes[]

References[]

Sources[]

• July 28/August 10. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• August 10 / July 28. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• July 28. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• July 28. The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 55.
• The Twenty-Eighth Day of the Month of July. Orthodoxy in China.
• July 28. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 223–224.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 364–367.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 28 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 28 Ιουλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• (in Greek) 28/07/2022. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 10 августа (28 июля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 28 июля по старому стилю / 10 августа по новому стилю. СПЖ "Союз православных журналистов". 2022.