February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 23

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 7 (March 6 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 9.

Saints

 * Saint Abilius (Avilius), Bishop of Alexandria (98)
 * Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome (136)
 * Saint Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis (2nd century)
 * Martyr Synesius (Synetus), by the sword.
 * Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria (286-305)  (see also: December 27)
 * Martyrs Anthusa and her 12 servants, by the sword.
 * Saint Titus of Bostra, Bishop of Bostra in Arabia (378)
 * Saint Ariston the Wonderworker, Bishop of Arsinoe, Cyprus (Famagusta) (c. late 4th - early 5th centuries)
 * Venerable Baradates, hermit near Antioch (469)
 * Venerable Saints Thalassius and Limneus hermits near Cyrrhus (5th century)
 * Holy Nine Children of Kola, Georgia (6th century):
 * Guram, Adarnasе, Baqar, Vache, Bardzim, Dachi, Dzhuansher, Ramaz, and Parsman.


 * Saint Leontius of Lycia (6th century)
 * Saints Babylus and his wife Comnita, of Nicosa (7th century)
 * Venerable Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople (821)
 * Saint Peter the Stylite of Mount Athos.
 * Saint Blaise, Bishop.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Paschasius, eleventh Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 312)
 * Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna (c. 556)  (see also: February 21)
 * Saint Elwin (Elwen), missionary, a holy man who accompanied St Breaca from Ireland to Cornwall (6th century)
 * Saint John the Saxon, born in Saxony in Germany, he restored monasticism in England after the Danish attacks, Abbot of Athelney (895)
 * Saint Raynerius (Raynier), a Benedictine monk at Beaulieu near Limoges, France (c. 967)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Herman, founder of Stolobny Monastery, Novgorod (1614)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Michael Lisitsyn, priest, of Ust-Labinskaya (1918)
 * New Hieromartyrs Joseph Smirnov, Protopresbyter, and Vladimir Ilinsky, Priest (1918)
 * New Hieromartyrs John Kastorsky, Deacon, and John Perebaskin, of Kostroma-Galich (1918)
 * New Martyr Blessed Theoktista Mikhailovna, Fool-for-Christ, of Voronezh (1936)
 * New Hieromartyrs Michael Gorbunov, John Orlov, Victor Morigerovsky, John Parushnikov, Sergius Belokurov, Andrew Yasenev, and Paul Smirnov, Priests (1938)
 * New Hieromartyrs Sergius Bukashkin and Antipas Kirillov, Hieromonks (1938)
 * Virgin-martyrs Elizabeth Timokhin, Irene Smirnov, and Barbara Losev (1938)
 * Virgin-martyr Parasceva Makarov (1938)
 * Martyrs Stephen Frantov and Nicholas Nekrasov (1938)
 * Martyrs Leonid Salkov and Peter Antonov, of Alma-Ata (1938)
 * Martyr Andrew Gnevishev of Tver (1941)
 * New Hieromartyr Philaret (Pryakhin), Abbot, of Trubino, Tver (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Uncovering of the relics (607-610) of the Holy Apostles Andronicus and Junia (1st century) and the Holy Martyrs, at the Gate of Eugenius at Constantinople.
 * Repose of Righteous Gregory (“Golden Grits”) Miroshnikov of Sednev (1855)
 * Repose of Schemanun Avramia of Kashin (1855)
 * Repose of Blessed Theoktista Mikhailovna, Fool-for-Christ, of Voronezh (1936)