Name days on 1 August
On 1 August there are no widely used names celebrating. Feasts and commemorations of the day: Procession of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross · The Holy Seven Maccabees, Solomone and Eleazar.
Celebrating
No widely celebrated name days on this date.
Saints and feasts of the day
2 feastsProcession of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross
The annual procession of a relic of the True Cross through the streets of Constantinople, marking the start of the Dormition fast.
The Holy Seven Maccabees, Solomone and Eleazar
Seven brothers, their teacher Eleazar and their mother Solomone, who chose martyrdom rather than break the Law in the second century BC.
About this day
In 2026, 1 August is a Saturday.
Communities that follow the old (Julian) calendar commemorate this day's saints on 14 August of the civil calendar.