Name days on 2 August
On 2 August there are no widely used names celebrating. Feasts and commemorations of the day: Saint Theodore the New Martyr of the Dardanelles · Finding of the Relics of Saints Maximus, Dadas and Kyntillianos.
Celebrating
No widely celebrated name days on this date.
Saints and feasts of the day
2 feastsSaint Theodore the New Martyr of the Dardanelles
A neomartyr from the Hellespont region, beheaded at the Dardanelles in 1690 for refusing to convert.
Finding of the Relics of Saints Maximus, Dadas and Kyntillianos
Three martyrs of Dorostolon under Diocletian, whose relics were later found and brought to Constantinople.
About this day
In 2026, 2 August is a Sunday.
Communities that follow the old (Julian) calendar commemorate this day's saints on 15 August of the civil calendar.