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February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 21

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 5 (March 4 on leap years) by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 7.

Saints

  • Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Byzantium, Bishop in Byzantium (136)
  • Martyrs Didymos, Nemesios and Potamios, in Cyprus.
  • Saint Eutropius, martyr (308)
  • Hieromartyr Sadoc of Persia (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (330)
  • Saint Anianus (Aninas).
  • Saint Bessarion the Great, Wonderworker of Egypt (466) (see also: June 6)
  • Saint Agatho of Rome, Pope of Rome (682)
  • Saint Mildrith, Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent (c. 700) (see also: July 13)
  • Saint Leo of Catania (Leo the Wonderworker), Bishop of Catania in Sicily (785)
  • Venerable Cindeus of Pisidia (Kindeos), Bishop of Pisidia.
  • Venerable Plotinus, monk.

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Bolcan (Olcan), baptised by St Patrick, Bolcan later became Bishop of Derkan in Ireland (c. 480)
  • Saint Valerius (Valier), first Bishop of Couserans in France (5th century?)
  • Saint Falco of Maastricht, Bishop of Maastricht in the Netherlands (512)
  • Saint Eleutherius of Tournai, Bishop of Tournai (531)
  • Saint Eucherius of Orléans, Bishop of Orleans (c. 740)
  • Saint Colgan, called 'the Wise' and 'the Chief Scribe of the Irish' , he was Abbot of Clonmacnoise in Offaly in Ireland (c. 796)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Yaroslav the Wise, son of the Varangian (Viking) Grand Prince Vladimir the Great (1054)
  • Saint Agatho, Wonderworker of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th-14th centuries)
  • Martyrdom of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov-Caves Monastery, by beheading, and his disciple St. Bassian of Murom (1570)
  • Venerable Martyrs 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery, martyred by the Lutherans (1578):
  • Hieromonk Titus,
  • Schemamonk Tikhon,
  • Monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Sylvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Samonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, Serapion, and Varlaam; and
  • Novices Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John.

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Rozov, Priest (1938)

    • References

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