August 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 3
Relief of St Sidwell (Sativola) on a shopping arcade in Sidwell Street, Exeter.
Stained glass window of Plegmund from Chester Cathedral.
Blessed Basil of Moscow, Fool-for-Christ.
Emperor Justinian II, Fool-for-Christ, on the reverse of this coin, holding a patriarchal globe with PAX, "peace".
Justinian II
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Justinian II, nicknamed "the Slit-Nosed", was the last Byzantine emperor of the Heraclian dynasty, reigning from 685 to 695 and again from 705 to 711. Like his namesake predecessor, Justinian I, Justi
August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
…Consecration of the Church of St. John the Theologian, near the Holy Great Church in Constantinople. Repose of the pious Emperor Justinian II, Fool-for-Christ, interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles. Repose of Hieromonk Peter (Seregin), spiritual father of Pühtitsa Convent, Estonia (1982…
Justinian II Solidus
Mutilation of Justinian II on the orders of Leontius in 695, miniature from a 15th century French manuscript.
Justinian and his son Tiberius, whom he crowned co-emperor in 706.
Justinian's II punitive squad robs Ravenna after the arrest of archbishop Felix in 709 as imagined in an artistic depiction from 1929.