title: July 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # July 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  June 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 2
  
  All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 14 by Old Calendar.
  
  For July 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 18.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Rome, brothers (284)
  * Saint Potitus od Gargara, martyr (2nd century)
  * Holy 2000 Martyrs, by the sword.
  * Holy 25 Martyrs in Nicomedia, by fire.
  * Saint Maurice.
  * Venerable Peter the Patrician (Peter of Constantinople), monk (854)
  * Venerable Basil, founder of the Monastery of the Deep Stream, Cappadocia (10th century)
  * Saint Leo the Hermit, Ascetic.
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Martin of Vienne, third Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 132)
  * Martyr Potitus at Naples (161) (see also: January 13)
  * Martyrs Julius and Aaron, Protomartyrs of Wales, suffered in Caerleon-on-Usk under Diocletian (304)
  * Saints Castus and Secundinus, much venerated in the south of Italy; they were born in Sinuessa (Mondragone) near Caserta (305)
  * Saint Domitian (c. 337-440)
  * Saint Theodoric (Thierry, Theodericus), Abbot of Mont d'Or near Rheims in the north of France; priest and disciple of the blessed Bishop Remigius (c. 533)
  * Saint Carilefus (Calais), a companion of St Avitus, founded the monastery of Anisole in Maine in France (c. 536)
  * Saint Gal I (Gallus of Clermont), Bishop of Clermont, uncle and teacher of St Gregory of Tours (c. 553)
  * Saint Leonorius (Léonor, Lunaire) (c. 570)
  * Saint Eparchius (Cybar), born in a noble family in Périgord in France, he renounced his title to become a monk at Sessac in Gaul (581)
  * Saint Serf (Servanus), the Apostle of West Fife in East Scotland, who reposed and was buried in Culross (c. 583)
  * Saint Veep ((Veepus, Veepy, Wimp, Wennapa), patron saint of St Veep in Cornwall (6th century)
  * Saint Cewydd, a saint of Anglesey in Wales and at Lancaut in Gloucestershire in England (6th century)
  * Saint Juthwara, sister of St. Sidwell; she was of British descent and lived in Devon in England (7th century)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Martyr Constantine of Cyprus (Constantine of Allemagne), Wonderworker, and those with him (late 12th century)
  * Venerable Leontius of Rădăuți, Bishop of Rădăuți in Moldavia (1432)
  * Saint Angelina (Branković), Despotina of Serbia (16th century)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr Arcadius Garyaev, priest (1918)
  * New Hieromartyr Alexis Drozdov, deacon (1942)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Valaam Icon of the Mother of God
  * Second translation of the relics of Venerable John of Rila (946), from Veliko Tarnovo to Rila (1470)
  * Repose of Fool-for-Christ Asenetha (Menshutkina) of Goritsy (1877)
  * Synaxis of the Saints of Crete. ( On the first Sunday between July 1–7 )
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Holy Wonderworking Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian at Rome (Russian icon, 15th century).
  * "The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice" by El Greco, 1580-82.
  * St. Angelina of Serbia, Despotina of Serbia.
  * The tomb of John of Rila, near Rila Monastery.
  