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February 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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February 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 24

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 8 (March 7 on leap years) by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 10.

Saints

  • Hieromartyr Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop of Smyrna (167)
  • Holy 73 Martyrs of Sirmium, under Diocletian (303)
  • Martyr Clement, by the sword.
  • Martyr Thea, by the sword.
  • Venerable Gorgonia the Righteous (370), sister of St. Gregory the Theologian.
  • Saint Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones, Constantinople (430)
  • Saints John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses (another), and Damian, ascetics near Cyrrhus in the Syrian desert (5th century)
  • Saint John Theristes ("the Harvester") of Stylos in Calabria (9th or 11th century) (see also: February 24)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Martha, a virgin-martyr beheaded in Astorga in Spain under Decius (251)
  • Saint Polycarp, a priest in Rome noted for ministering to those in prison for their faith (c. 300)
  • Saint Romana, a virgin born in Rome who reposed at the age of eighteen while living as an anchoress in a cave on the banks of the Tiber in Italy (324)
  • Saints Syncrotas, Antigonus, Rutilus, Libius, Senerotas and Rogatianus, martyrs at Sirmium in Pannonia (4th century)
  • Saint Florentius of Seville, Confessor, a saint much venerated in Seville in Spain (c. 485)
  • Saint Felix of Brescia, twentieth Bishop of Brescia (c. 650)
  • Saint Jurmin, an East Anglian prince, son or nephew of King Anna of East Anglia (653)
  • Saint Boswell (Boisil), Abbot of Melrose Abbey in Scotland (c. 661) (see also: February 24)
  • Saint Mildburga (Milburgh), Abbess of Wenlock Priory (715)
  • Saint Medrald (Mérald, Méraut), a monk at Saint-Evroult (Ebrulfus) of Ouche in France, who later became Abbot of Vendôme (c. 850)
  • Saint Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz (1011)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Venerable Damian of Esphigmenou Monastery, on Mount Athos (1280)
  • Saint Cosmas of Zograf Monastery, Mount Athos (1281)
  • Saint Moses of White Lake Monastery, monk (1480)
  • New Monk-martyr Damian of Philotheou and Kissavos, at Larissa (1586)
  • New Hieromartyr Lazarus of the Peloponnese (c. 1618)
  • Venerable Polycarp of Bryansk, monk of Bryansk (1620-1621)
  • Saint Nazarius, Abbot of Valaam Monastery (1809)
  • Saint Seraphim (Zenobius), Schema-Metropolitan of Tetritskaro, Georgia, monk of Glinsk Monastery (1985)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Michael Edlinsky, Archpriest, of Kiev (1937) (see also: November 17)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexis Nikolsky, Priest (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Dimitrov, Priest (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Michael Razhkin, Priest (1938)
  • Martyr Sergius Borodavkin (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Sergius (Bukashkin), Hieromonk, of Novo-Alexandrovka, Moscow (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Antipas (Kyrillov), hieromonk, of Tatarintsevo, Moscow (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Philaret (Pryakhin), Abbot, of Trubino, Tver (1942)

    • Other commemorations

  • Repose of Archimandrite Agapit (Belovidov) of Optina Monastery (1922)
  • Uncovering of the relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow (1998)

    • References

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