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February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 23

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 7 (March 6 on leap years) by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 9.

Saints

  • Saint Abilius (Avilius), Bishop of Alexandria (98)
  • Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome (136)
  • Saint Papius of Hierapolis (2nd century)
  • Martyr Synesius (Synetus), by the sword.
  • Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria (286-305)
  • Martyrs Anthusa and her 12 servants, by the sword.
  • Saint Titus of Bostra, Bishop of Bostra in Arabia (378)
  • Saint Ariston the Wonderworker, Bishop of Arsinoe, Cyprus (Famagusta) (c. late 4th - early 5th centuries)
  • Venerable Baradates, hermit near Antioch (469)
  • Venerable Saints Thalassius and Limnaeus, hermits near Cyrrhus (5th century)
  • Holy Nine Children of Kola, Georgia (6th century):
  • Guram, Adarnasе, Baqar, Vache, Bardzim, Dachi, Dzhuansher, Ramaz, and Parsman.
  • Saint Leontius of Lycia (6th century)
  • Saints Babylus and his wife Comnita, of Nicosa (7th century)
  • Venerable Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople (821)
  • Saint Peter the Stylite of Mount Athos.
  • Saint Blaise, Bishop.

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Paschasius, eleventh Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 312)
  • Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna (c. 556)
  • Saint Elwin (Elwen), missionary, a holy man who accompanied St Breaca from Ireland to Cornwall (6th century)
  • Saint John the Saxon, born in Saxony in Germany, he restored monasticism in England after the Danish attacks, Abbot of Athelney (895)
  • Saint Raynerius (Raynier), a monk at Beaulieu near Limoges, France (c. 967)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Herman, founder of Stolobny Monastery, Novgorod (1614)
  • Saint Simon (Todorsky) of the Kiev Caves Lavra, Professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Archbishop of Pskov (1754) (see also: February 21)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Michael Lisitsyn, priest, of Ust-Labinskaya (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs Joseph Smirnov, Protopresbyter, and Vladimir Ilinsky, Priest (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs John Kastorsky, Deacon, and John Perebaskin, of Kostroma-Galich (1918)
  • New Martyr Blessed Theoktista Mikhailovna, Fool-for-Christ, of Voronezh (1936)
  • New Hieromartyrs Michael Gorbunov, John Orlov, Victor Morigerovsky, John Parushnikov, Sergius Belokurov, Andrew Yasenev, and Paul Smirnov, Priests (1938)
  • New Hieromartyrs Sergius Bukashkin and Antipas Kirillov (1938)
  • Virgin-martyrs Elizabeth Timokhin, Irene Smirnov, and Barbara Losev (1938)
  • Virgin-martyr Parasceva Makarov (1938)
  • Martyrs Stephen Frantov and Nicholas Nekrasov (1938)
  • Martyrs Leonid Salkov and Peter Antonov, of Alma-Ata (1938)
  • Martyr Andrew Gnevishev of Tver (1941)
  • New Hieromartyr Philaret Pryakin (1942)

    • Other commemorations

  • Uncovering of the relics (607-610) of the Holy Apostles Andronicus and Junia (1st century) and the Holy Martyrs, at the Gate of Eugenius at Constantinople.
  • Repose of Righteous Gregory (“Golden Grits”) Miroshnikov of Sednev (1855)
  • Repose of Schemanun Avramia of Kashin (1855)

    • References

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