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February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 23.

Feasts

  • Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple.

    • Saints

  • Martyr Agatha of Catania in Sicily (251)
  • Martyr Theodoula of Anazarbus in Cilicia, and with her Martyrs Helladius, Macarius, Boethos, and Evagrius (304)
  • Venerable Theodosius of Skopelos in Cilicia (c. 421)
  • Saint Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (970)
  • Venerable Sabbas the New of Sicily, Abbot (995)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Agricola, the eleventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium (420)
  • Saint Avitus of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne, Gaul (520)
  • Saints Genuinus (Ingenuinus), Bishop of Sabiona, and Albinus (7th century)
  • Saint Bertulf of Renty (O.S.B.) (705)
  • Saint Indract of Glastonbury (c. 710)
  • Saint Modestus, Bishop of Carinthia and Apostle of Carantania (c. 722)
  • Saint Vodoaldus (Voel, Vodalus, Vodalis), born in Ireland, he went to France and reposed as a hermit near Soissons (c. 725)
  • Saint Adelaide, Abbess of Willich (c. 1015)
  • Saint Agatha Hildegard of Carinthia, wife of the Count of Carinthia in Austria (1024)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Gregory Roşca (Grigorie Roşca), Metropolitan of Moldavia (1570)
  • Saint Theodosius of Chernigov, Archbishop of Chernigov (1696)
  • New Martyr Anthony of Athens, at Constantinople (1774)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Martyrs Matushka Agatha (Agafia) (1938), and with her Schemamonk Eugene (1939) and Righteous Paramon (1941), of Belorussia.
  • Virgin-martyr Alexandra, and martyr Michael (1942)

    • Other commemorations

  • Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Eletsk-Chernigov" (1060)
  • Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Sicilian-Divnogorsky" (1092)
  • Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Seeking of the Lost" (17th century)
  • Repose of Metropolitan Michael (Jovanovich) of Serbia (1897)
  • Repose of Valeriu Gafencu of Bessarabia, Romania (1952)
  • Repose of Abbess Agnia of Nizhni-Novgorod (1954)

    • References

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