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February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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February 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 22

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 6 (March 5 on leap years) by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 8.

Saints

  • Saint Eustathius of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (337)
  • Hieromartyr Severian, Bishop of Scythopolis in Palestine (452)
  • Venerable Andreas and Anatolios, monastics of the Church of Jerusalem, disciples of Venerable Euthymius the Great (5th century)
  • Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna and Confessor (c. 556) (see also: February 22)
  • Saint John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople (577)
  • Saint Zachariah, Patriarch of Jerusalem (632)
  • Venerable Timothy of Symbola on Mt. Olympus in Bithynia (795)
  • Saint George of Amastris, Bishop of Amastris on the Black Sea (c. 805)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Felix of Metz, third Bishop of Metz in France for over forty years (2nd century))
  • Saint Severus and Sixty-Two Companions, martyrs in Syrmium in Pannonia (3rd-4th centuries)
  • Saint Alexander of Adrumetum, martyred with others in North Africa (c. 434)
  • Martyrs Verulus, Secundinus, Siricius, Felix, Servulus, Saturninus, Fortunatus and Companions, martyrs in North Africa, probably under the Vandals (c. 434)
  • Saint Paterius, a monk, disciple and friend of St Gregory the Great, he became Bishop of Brescia and was a prolific writer (606))
  • Saint Pepin of Landen, Duke of Brabant, he was the husband of St Ida and the father of St Gertrude of Nivelles and St Begga (c. 646)
  • Saint Ercongotha, daughter of King Erconbert of Kent and St Saxburgh, became a nun at Faremoutiers-en-Brie under her aunt, St Ethelburgh, but reposed very young (660)
  • Saint Gundebert (Gumbert, Gondelbert), Bishop of Sens in France, later the founder of the monastery of Senones around 660 (c. 676)
  • Saint Germanus of Granfelden, Abbot of Granfield in the Val Moutier in Switzerland, martyred with another monk, Randoald, while interceding for the poor (677)
  • Saint Avitus II of Clermont, Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne, one of the great bishops of the age (689)
  • Saint Valerius, a monk and Abbot of San Pedro de Montes, he left several ascetic writings (695)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Macarius, Hieroschemamonk of Glinsk Hermitage (1864)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Alexander Vislyansky, Daniel Alferov and Gregory Klebanov, Priests (1930)
  • New Hieromartyr Constantine Pyatikrestovsky, Priest and Paul Shirokogorov, Deacon (1938)
  • Virgin-Martyr Olga Koshelev (1939)

    • Other commemorations

  • "Kozelshchina" (Kolzelshchanskaya) Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1881)
  • Repose of Blessed Simon (Todorsky), bishop of Pskov (1754) (see also: February 22)

    • References

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