February 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 1 (February 29 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 3.

Saints

 * Hieromartyrs Pamphilus of Caesarea, Priest, and 11 companions, at Caesarea in Palaestina (c. 307-309):
 * Valens, Deacon, and Martyrs Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel.


 * Saint Maruthas of Martyropolis, Bishop of Sophene and Martyropolis (422), and the Martyrs of Persia (4th century), whose relics rest in Martyropolis.
 * Saint Flavian I of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (404) (see also: September 27)
 * Saint Flavian the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (449)
 * Venerable Flavian the Hermit, monastic and Wonderworker.
 * Saint Mary the New, of Byzia in Thrace (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Onesimus, of the Seventy Apostles (c. 68) (see also: February 15)
 * Saint Honestus (Honestus of Nîmes), a disciple of Saturninus of Toulouse, who preached the Gospel in Spain (270)
 * Saint Faustinus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia and Confessor (381)
 * Hieromartyr Tanco of Verden, Bishop of Verden (815)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Monk-martyr Romanus of Karpenision and Kapsokalyvia, Mount Athos, at Constantinople (1694) (see also January 5)
 * Saint Basil Gryaznov of Pavlovo-Posadsky (1869)
 * Saint Macarius (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow, Apostle to the Altai (1926)
 * Saint Nicholas of Japan, Archbishop and Equal-to-the-Apostles (1912) (New Calendar date see also: February 3)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Peter Lagov, Priest (1931)
 * New Hieromartyr Elias Chetverukhin, Priest, of Moscow (1934)
 * New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics of Virgin-martyr Juliana of Nicomedia (304) (see also December 21)
 * Synaxis of the 'Cypriot' Icon of the Theotokos.