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February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 18

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 2 (March 1 on leap years) by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 4.

Saints

  • Saint Mariamne, Equal to the Apostles, sister of Apostle Philip (1st century)
  • Saint Auxibius of Soli, Bishop of Soli in Cyprus (102)
  • Martyrs Donatus, Romulus, Secundian, and 86 Companions, at Concordia (Porto Gruaro), near Venice (304)
  • Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro (c. 306)
  • Martyr Theodoulos, at Caesarea Palestina (308)
  • Holy Emperor Marcian (457) and St. Pulcheria, his wife (453)
  • Venerable Martyr Theocteristus, Abbot of Pelecete Monastery near Prusa (8th century) (see also: November 10 and February 28)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Faustinus and Companions, a group of forty-five martyrs honoured in Rome.
  • Saint Lommán of Trim (Luman), a nephew of St Patrick and the first Bishop of Trim in Meath in Ireland (c. 450)
  • Saint Habet-Deus, Bishop of Luna in Tuscany in Italy, probably martyred by the Arian Vandals (c. 500)
  • Saint Fortchern, Bishop of Trim in Ireland, he later lived as a hermit (6th century)
  • Saint Guevrock (Gueroc; Kerric), Abbot of Loc-Kirec, he also helped St Paul of Léon (6th century)
  • Saint Fintan of Clonenagh, a disciple of St Columba, he led the life of a hermit in Clonenagh in Leix in Ireland, Confessor (603)
  • Saint Finan of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne (661)
  • Saint Silvinus of Auchy, enlightener of the area near Thérouanne, then a mnonastic in the Benedictine abbey of Auchy-les-Moines (c. 718)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Theodore, monk of the Kievan Zverynetsky Monastery (1096)
  • St. Euxiphius I, Bishop and Wonderworker, listed in some synaxaria as one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (late 12th century) (see also: September 17 )
  • Venerable Theodore the Silent, of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
  • Venerable Theodosius, monastic founder at Mt. Kelifarevo (1363), and his disciple St. Romanus (c. 1370), of Turnovo, Bulgaria.
  • New Martyr Michael Mavroeidis of Adrianopolis (1490)
  • Saint Hermogenes of Moscow, Patriarch and Wonderworker of Moscow and all Russia (1612)
  • New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mytilene (1795)
  • New Hieromartyr Theodore of Adjara, Hieromonk, at Mt. Athos (1822)
  • Venerable Barnabas, Elder of Gethsemane Skete, of St. Sergius Lavra (1906)
  • Saint Nicholas Planas, Priest, of Athens (1932) (see also: March 2 - Greek)
  • New Hieromartyr Joseph Zograph of Dionysiou, Hieromonk, at Mt. Athos (1819)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Michael Nikologorsky and Paul Kosminkov, Priests (1938)
  • Martyr Anna Chetverikov (1940) (see also: February 18)

    • Other commemorations

  • Uncovering of the relics (867-869) of Martyr Menas the Most Eloquent, of Alexandria (ca. 313)
  • Weeping "Tikhvin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Kozak Skete of St. Elias on Mt. Athos.
  • Repose of Elder Agapitus of the Kiev Caves (1887)
  • Repose of Schemamonk John (Shova) of Kolitsou Skete, Mt. Athos (2009)

    • References

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