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June 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 2

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 19.

Saints

  • Martyr Justin the Philosopher (Justin Martyr) at Rome (166)
  • Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus), and Justus with Justin Martyr (166)
  • Martyr Neon, by beheading.
  • Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace.
  • Hieromartyr Phyrrhus the Virgin.
  • Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222)
  • Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250)
  • The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251)
  • Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299)
  • Martyr Gerasimos.
  • St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Martyrs Felinus and Gratinianus (250)
  • Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others, at Autun (272)
  • Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287)
  • Martyr Juventius, in Rome.
  • Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304)
  • Martyr Secundus, At Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304)
  • Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize Aquitaine, France.
  • Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400)
  • Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430)
  • Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornwall), an early bishop of Cornish origin who preached in Cornwall and in Brittany (6th century)
  • Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch Canonicorum (c. 831).
  • Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia in England (849)
  • Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044)
  • Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop of Oca-Valpuesta (c. 1044)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, Unmercenary physician of the Kiev Near Caves (1095)
  • Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437)
  • Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696)
  • Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia: David, Gabriel, and Paul of the St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700)
  • Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagalyuk), Bishop of Kharkov (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Basil, priest, Virgin-martyr Vera Samsonov (1940).

    • Other Commemorations

  • Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the plague through the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (c. 1743)
  • Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1975).
  • Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908)

    • References

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