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February 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 17

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 1 (February 29 on leap years) by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 3.

Saints

  • Hieromartyrs Pamphilus of Caesarea, Priest, and Valens, Deacon, and Martyrs Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel, at Caesarea in Palaestina (c. 307-309)
  • Saint Maruthas of Martyropolis, Bishop of Sophene and Martyropolis (422), and the Martyrs of Persia (4th century), whose relics rest in Martyropolis.
  • Saint Flavian of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (404)
  • Saint Flavian the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (449)
  • Venerable Flavian the Hermit, monastic and Wonderworker.
  • Saint Mary the New, of Byzia in Thrace (9th century)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Onesimus, of the Seventy Apostles (c. 68) (see also: February 15)
  • Saint Honestus (Honestus of NĂ®mes), a disciple of Saturninus of Toulouse, who preached the Gospel in Spain (270)
  • Saint Faustinus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia and Confessor (381)
  • Hieromartyr Tanco of Verden, Bishop of Verden (815)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • New Monk-martyr Romanus of Karpenision and Kapsokalyvia, Mount Athos, at Constantinople (1694) (see also January 5)
  • Saint Basil Gryaznov of Pavlovo-Posadsky (1869)
  • Saint Macarius (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow, Apostle to the Altai (1926)
  • Saint Nicholas of Japan, Archbishop and Equal-to-the-Apostles (1912) (see also: February 3)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Peter Lagov, Priest (1931)
  • New Hieromartyr Elias Chetverukhin, Priest, of Moscow (1934)
  • New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest (1938)

    • Other commemorations

  • Translation of the relics of Virgin-martyr Juliana of Nicomedia (304) (see also December 21)
  • Synaxis of the 'Cypriot' Icon of the Theotokos.

    • References

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