February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 21

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 5 (March 4 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 7.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Byzantium, Bishop in Byzantium (136)
 * Martyrs Didymos, Nemesios and Potamios, in Cyprus.
 * Saint Eutropius, martyr (308)
 * Hieromartyr Sadoc of Persia (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (343)   (see also: October 19)
 * Saint Anianus (Aninas).
 * Venerable Bessarion the Great, Wonderworker of Egypt (466)  (see also: June 6)
 * Saint Agatho of Rome, Pope of Rome (682)
 * Saint Leo of Catania (Leo the Wonderworker), Bishop of Catania in Sicily (785)
 * Venerable Cindeus of Pisidia (Kindeos), Bishop of Pisidia.
 * Venerable Plotinus, monk.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Bolcan (Olcan), baptised by St Patrick, Bolcan later became Bishop of Derkan in Ireland (c. 480)
 * Saint Valerius (Valier), first Bishop of Couserans in France (5th century?)
 * Saint Falco of Maastricht, Bishop of Maastricht in the Netherlands (512)
 * Saint Eleutherius of Tournai, Bishop of Tournai (531)
 * Saint Mildrith, Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent (c. 700)   (see also: July 13)
 * Saint Eucherius of Orléans, Bishop of Orleans (c. 740)
 * Saint Colgan, called  'the Wise'  and  'the Chief Scribe of the Irish' , he was Abbot of Clonmacnoise in Offaly in Ireland (c. 796)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Yaroslav the Wise, great prince of Kyiv, son of the Varangian (Viking) Grand Prince Vladimir the Great (1054)
 * Saint Agatho, Wonderworker of the Kyiv Caves Monastery (13th-14th centuries)
 * Martyrdom of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov-Caves Monastery, by beheading, and his disciple St. Bassian of Murom (1570)
 * Venerable Martyrs 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery, martyred by the Lutherans (1578):
 * Hieromonk Titus,
 * Schemamonk Tikhon,
 * Monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Sylvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Samonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, and Serapion; and novices Varlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John.

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Rozov, Priest (1938)

Greek Sources

 * Great Synaxaristes: 20 Φεβρουαρίου. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
 * Συναξαριστής. 20 Φεβρουαρίου. Ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια τησ Ελλαδοσ).

Russian Sources

 * 5 марта (20 февраля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
 * 20 февраля (ст.ст.) 5 марта 2014 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (Decr).