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February 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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February 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 11 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 13

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 30.

Saints

  • Holy martyrs Prima, Ampelius, Dativus, Plotinus, Saturninus, Fabius, Felix and their companions, in Carthage, by the sword (see also: February 11 in the West)
  • Saint Meletius of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (381)
  • Saint Saint Mary (Marinus) at Alexandria, nun, and her father Eugene, monk, of Alexandria (6th century)
  • Saint Antony II of Constantinople, Patriarch (901)
  • Saint Sisinnios, 'Bishop of God', in the region of the Metropolis of Ephesus (c. 919-944)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Modestus and Julian, at Carthage (2nd century?)
  • Saint Modestus, a deacon, born in Sardinia and martyred under Diocletian (c. 304)
  • Saint Eulalia of Barcelona (Aulaire, Aulazie, Olalla), born in Barcelona in Spain, she was a virgin-martyr under Diocletian (c. 304) (see also: August 22 and December 10)
  • Saint Damian, a martyr in Rome whose relics were found in the Catacombs of St Callistus and sent to Salamanca in Spain
  • Saint Gaudentius of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, Confessor (c. 465)
  • Saint Æthelwold of Lindisfarne (740)
  • Saint Benedict Revelli, a monk at Santa Maria dei Fonti in Italy, then a hermit on the island of Gallinaria in the Gulf of Genoa, became Bishop of Albenga in 870 (c. 900)
  • Saint Julian the Hospitaller

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Prochorus of Georgia, builder of Holy Cross Monastery near Jerusalem (1066)
  • Venebrable hieromartyr John the Sinaite (1091)
  • New Monk-martyrs Luke (Mukhaidze) (1277) and Nicholas (Dvali) (1314), of Jerusalem, and the holy fathers of the Georgian monasteries in Jerusalem
  • Saint Alexius, Metropolitan and Wonderworker of all Russia (1378)
  • Saint Bassian, founder and Abbot of Ryabovsky Forest Monastery in Uglich (1509)
  • New Martyr Christos the Gardener, at Constantinople (1748)
  • Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Kharkov (1840)
  • Venerable Meletios of Ypseni (Meletios of Lardos), founder of the Monastery of Panagia Ypseni, Rhodes, in 1855 (19th century)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Alexius (Buy), Bishop of Voronezh (1930)
  • New Martyr Mitrophan, Archpriest (1931)

    • Other commemorations

  • Appearance of the Iveron Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos ("Panagia Portaitissa" or "Gate-Keeper"), Mt. Athos (9th century) (see also: March 31)
  • Consecration of the Church of the Theotokos in Pousgin (1002)
  • Repose of the cave-dweller Anastasia (Logacheva) of Ardatov (1875)

    • References

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