June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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June 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 19
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For June 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 5.
Saints
- Martyrs Leontius, Hypatius and Theodoulos at Tripoli in Phoenicia (70â79)[1][2][3][4][5][note 2][note 3]
- Martyr Aetherus of Nicomedia (305)[1][2][4][8][note 4]
- The Two Martyrs of Cyprus.[2][9]
- Saint Marina the Virgin, of Bithynia (8th century)[1][10][note 5]
- Venerable Leontius the Shepherd, monk.[2][4][10][11]
- Venerable Erasmus.[2][4][10][12]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Mark and Marcellian, twin brothers and deacons who suffered in Rome under Maximian (c. 287)[13][14][note 6]
- Saints Cyriacus and Paula of Málaga, two Christians, stoned to death in Málaga in Spain in the Diocletianic Persecution (305)[2][13][15][note 7]
- Martyr Elpidios, in Gaul (4th century)[2][16]
- Saint Amandus of Bordeaux, successor of St Delphinus as Bishop of Bordeaux in France, Confessor (c. 431)[2][6][13][17][note 8]
- Saint Alena of Brussels, martyr (c. 640)[13][note 9]
- Saint Calogerus the Anchorite, a Greek who lived for thirty-five years as a hermit near Girgenti in Sicily after preaching Christ in the isles of Lipari (c. 486)[13][note 10]
- Saints Gregory, Demetrius and Calogerus, respectively a bishop, archdeacon and abbot in North Africa, driven out by Arian Vandals (5th century)[2][13][18][note 11]
- Saint Fortunatus the Philosopher, a bishop driven from the north of Italy by the Lombards (c. 569)[2][13][19][note 12]
- Saint Osmanna (Osanna), a nun at the convent of Jouarre in France (c. 700)[13]
- Saint Guy of Baume, successor of St Berno at Baume Abbey in France, later a hermit near Fay-en-Bresse (c. 940)[13]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Peter of Koriša, aristocrat who gave away his possessions to become a monk at the Monastery of the Holy Archangels, later a hermit in the Šar Mountains (1275)[2][20][note 13] (see also: June 5 )
- Venerable Leontius, canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th century)[1][2][10][21][22][23]
- Venerable Leontius the Myrrh-gusher (Leontius the Hagiorite), of Argos and of Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos, clairvoyant (1605)[1][2][4][10][24][25]
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicanor (Morozkin), Archimandrite, of Spas-Ruzsky, Moscow (1938)[1][10][23]
- New Hieromartyrs Basil Smirnov,[26] Alexander Krutitsky,[27] Basil Krylov[28] and Sergius Krotkov, Priests (1938)[10][23]
- New Hieromartyr Ioannicius (Lipovac), Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, executed by Communist partisans at the close of World War II (1945)[2][29] (see also: June 4 )
Other commemorations
- Synaxis of the Church of the Commander-in-Chief Michael the Archangel, near the Church of St. Julian in the Forum, Constantinople.[2][4][30][31]
- Bogolubov Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1155)[1][2][10][23][32][33][34]
- Meeting of the Piukhtitsa ("At the Source") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1894, 1946)[1][10][23]
- Uncovering of the relics (1997) of New Hiero-confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), Bishop of Glazov (1934)[1][10][23][35][note 14]
Icon gallery
New Hieromartyr Ioannicius (Lipovac), Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral.
Theotokos of Bogolyubovo (12th century).
New Hiero-confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), Bishop of Glazov.
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Notes
- The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar"). - "At Tripoli, in Phoenicia, in the time of the governor Adrian, St. Leontius, a soldier, who, through bitter torments, attained to the crown of martyrdom, together with the tribune Hypatius and Theodulus, whom he had converted to Christ."[6]
- "SAINT LEONTIUS was a soldier at Tripoli, in Phoenicia, who believed in Christ, and refused to sacrifice to the genius of the empire, and to the heathen gods. He converted Hypatius and Theodulus, two other officers, the former of whom he cured of fever. By order of Hadrian they were all three executed."[7]
- "AT Rome, on the Ardeatine road, in the persecution of Diocletian, the birthday of the saintly brothers Marcus and Marcellian, martyrs, who were arrested by the judge Fabian, tied to a stake, and had sharp nails driven into their feet. As they ceased not to praise the name of Christ, they were pierced through the sides with lances, and thus went to the kingdom of heaven with the glory of martyrdom."[6]
- See: (in French) Amand de Bordeaux. Wikipédia. (French Wikipedia).
- Born of pagan parents near Brussels in Belgium, Alena was baptised without their knowledge. She was put to death while secretly going to the liturgy.
- "At Sacca, in Sicily, St. Calogerus, hermit, whose holiness is principally manifested by the deliverance of possessed persons."[6]
- They were defenders of Trinitarianism against Arianism. They settled in Fragalata near Messina in Sicily and preached the Gospel there. They are honoured as the patron-saints of Fragalata.
- See: (in Serbian) ÐеÑÐ°Ñ ÐоÑиÑки. ÐикипедиÑÑ. (Serbian Wikipedia).
- See: (in Russian) ÐикÑÐ¾Ñ (ÐÑÑÑовидов). Ðикипедии. (Russian Wikipedia).