title: August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # August 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  August 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 30
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 11 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For August 29, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 16.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (ca. 28)
  * Saints Candida (418) and Gelasia (422), of Constantinople.
  * Saint Theodora, nun, of Thessaloniki, who was from Aegina (892) (see also: April 5)
  * Saint Arcadius of Arsinoe, Cyprus, Bishop and Wonderworker.
  * Saint Basil I the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor (886)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Sabina, matron and martyr from Rome (c. 126)
  * Saint Sabina of Troyes, by tradition the sister of St Sabinian of Troyes in France where she was venerated together with him (c. 275)
  * Saint Candida, one of a group of martyrs who suffered on the Ostian Way outside the gates of Rome.
  * 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)
  * Saint Adelphus, an early Bishop of Metz and Confessor (5th century)
  * Saint Sæbbi of Essex (Sebbi, Sebba), King of Essex and monk (c. 694)
  * Saint Medericus (Merry), a monk at St Martin's in Autun, where he eventually became abbot (c. 700)
  * Saint Velleicus (Willeic), born in England, he followed St Swithbert to Germany and became Abbot of Kaiserswerth (8th century)
  * Saint Eadwold of Cerne (Edwold), hermit at Cerne in Dorset in England (9th century)
  * Saint Alberic, a monk who lived at Bagno de Romagua in Italy (1050)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Venerable Alexander, Abbot of Voche, near Galich (16th century)
  * New Martyr Anastasius (Spaso) of Strumica, at Thessaloniki (1794)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Peter Reshetnikov, Priest of Perm (1918)
  * New Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Krutitsa (1936)
  * New Martyr Theodore Ivanov of Tobolsk (1937)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Commemoration of all Orthodox soldiers killed on the field of battle.
  * Translation of the relics (1699) of St. Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511)
  * Repose of Hiero-Schemamonk Poemen of Cernica (1831)
  * Repose of Righteous Pachomius the Silent, of Valdai Monastery (1886)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John (Dionysiou monastery)
  * Head of Saint John the Baptist.
  * Gold solidus of Emperor Basil I the Macedonian.
  