July 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 5

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 17 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Saint Andrew of Crete, archbishop (712)
• Venerable Martha, mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (554)
• Hieromartyr, Theodore of Cyrene, Bishop of Cyrene in Libya and those martyrs with him
• Saint Andrei Rublev, iconographer (1430)
• Holy Royal Martyrs of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexei, and Grand duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and those martyred with them (1918)
• Burial of prince Andrei I Bogolyubsky

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• St. Finbar, Abbot of Innis-Doimhle (most likely present-day Inch, Co. Wexford), Ireland.^[1]

References

1. Hutchison-Hall, John (Ellsworth) (2014). Orthodox Saints of the British Isles - Volume III (1 ed.). New York: St. Eadfrith Press. ISBN 9780692257661.

• Orthodox Saints and Feasts
• 4th July. Pre-Schism Orthodox Western Saints.
• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints