February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 25

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 9 (March 8 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 11.

Feast

 * First (4th century) and Second (452) Findings of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist.

Saints

 * Saint John the Harvester (Theristos), of Calabria (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Montanus, Lucias, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions, at Carthage (259)
 * Saint Primitiva (Primitivus), an early martyr, probably in Rome.
 * Saint Modestus, Bishop of Trier in Germany and Confessor (489)
 * Saint Praetextatus (Prix), Bishop of Rouen in France and Martyr (586)
 * Saint Liudhard (Letard), Chaplain and Bishop of Queen Bertha of Kent (c. 600)
 * Saint Æthelberht of Kent, King of Kent (616)  (see also: February 25)
 * Saint Boisil of Melrose Abbey (664) (see also: February 23)
 * Saint Cummain Ailbe (Cumine the White), Abbot of Iona (669)
 * Saint Betto, a monk at Sainte Colombe in Sens in France, who became Bishop of Auxerre in 889 (918)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Erasmus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (c. 1160)

Other commemorations

 * Uncovering of the relics (1486) of St. Romanus, Prince of Uglich (1285)