June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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June 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 22
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For June 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 8.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Tertius of Iconium (Terence), Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Iconium (1st century)[1][2][3][4][note 2]
- Martyr Julian[6] and his wife Basilissa, and with them Martyrs Celsius, his mother Marcianilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty prison guards, of Antinoe in Egypt (283-305)[1][3][7] (see also: January 8 )
- Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (c. 284-305)[1][3][8][9]
- Martyr Aphrodisius in Cilicia.[1][3][10][note 3]
- Martyrs Kyriakos and Apollinarios, of Africa.[12][note 4]
- Saints Julius of Novara, presbyter, and his brother Julian the Deacon (5th century)[1][13][14][15]
- Martyr Archil II, King of Georgia (718 or 744)[1][13][16][17]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Rufinus and Martia, martyrs in one of the early persecutions in Syracuse in Sicily.[18][note 5]
- Saint Urciscenus, Seventh Bishop of Pavia in Italy c 183-216 (c. 216)[18][note 6]
- Saint Martin of Tongres, seventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium, venerated as the Apostle of the Hesbaye region in Brabant (c. 350)[5][18]
- Saint Demetria, a virgin-martyr in Rome, sister of St Bibiana and daughter of Sts Flavian and Dafrosa (363)[18][19][note 7]
- Saint Alban of Mainz, a Greek priest from Naxos, sent into exile by the Arians, he preached the Gospel in Germany around Mainz, then martyred by the Arians (c. 400)[18][20][note 8]
- Saint Cormac Ua Liatháin (Cormac of the Sea; Corbmac), a disciple of St Columba and Abbot of Durrow Monastery, Ireland (c. 590)[1][13][18][21]
- Saint Méen (Mevenus, Mewan, Maine), a disciple of St Samson, whom he accompanied to Brittany, and founded the monastery of Saint-Méon (617)[13][18][22][23]
- Saint Agofredus, brother of St Leutfrid (Leffroi), and monk at Holy Cross (La-Croix-Saint-Leuffroi), a monastery near Evreux in the north of France (738)[18]
- Saint Leutfrid (Leufroi), founder of the monastery La Croix-Saint-Ouen (later called Saint-Leufroy) near Evreux in France, where he was abbot for nearly fifty years (738)[18][24][note 9]
- Saint Engelmund of Velsen, an English-born Benedictine missionary to Frisia (c. 739)[18][22][25][note 10]
- Saint Dominic of Comacchio, a monk at Comacchio near Venice in Italy (c. 820)[18]
- Saint Rodulf (Rudolph, Raoul, Ralph), Abbot, and Archbishop of Bourges, Gaul (866)[1][18][note 11]
- Saint Wolfrid, founder of the monastery of Hohentwiel in Germany (c. 990)[18]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Anastasia of Serbia (Anna), mother of St. Sava (1200)[1][13][26][27]
- Martyr Theodore, right-believing prince of Starodub (1330)[1][13]
- Martyr Luarsab II, King of Georgia (1622)[1][13][28][29]
- New Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros, near Rhodes, at Chios (1732)[1][3][13][30]
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John Budrin (1918)[13][31][32]
- Venerable New Hieroconfessor George (Lavrov), Archimandrite, of Kaluga (1932)[1][13][31][33]
- New Hieromartyr Jonah (Sankov), Hieromonk, of Alpatievo, Moscow (1938)[1][13][31][34]
- New Hieromartyrs Alexis Skvortsov,[35] Paul Uspensky and Nicholas Rozanov, Priests (1938)[13][31]
- New Martyr Nikita Sukharev (1942)[13][31]
Other commemorations
Icon gallery
Erastus, Olympus, Rhodion, Sosipater, Quartus and Tertius.
Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia.
St. Julius of Novara, presbyter.
St. Alban of Mainz.
Martyr Luarsab II, King of Georgia.
Shrine with the relics of St. Maximus the Greek.
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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 Pavia, St. Urciscenus, bishop and confessor."[5]
- Born in England, he became a monk at a very early age and then priest and abbot. He went to Friesland in Holland where he successfully preached with St Willibrord at Velsen, six miles north of Haarlem.
- He became a monk at the monastery of Solignac in France and later Abbot of St Medard in Soissons. In 840 he became Bishop of Bourges, founding monasteries and doing good works.