July 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 21

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 2 by Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Holy and glorious Prophet Elijah the Thesbite, whose fiery ascent as it were into the Heavens we celebrate (9th century BC)
 * Saint Flavianus II of Antioch, Patriarch and Confessor (512)
 * Saint Elias I of Jerusalem, Patriarch and Confessor (518)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Rheticus (Rheticius, Rhetice), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Autun in France (334)
 * Saint Aurelius of Carthage, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (429)
 * Saint Severa of St Gemma, Abbess of St Gemma (later Sainte-Sevère) in Villeneuve near Bourges, the sister of St Modoald, Bishop of Trier (c. 680)
 * Saint Wulmar of Boulogne (Ulmar, Ulmer, Vilmarus, Volmar), founder of the monastery of Samer near Boulogne, later called Saint-Vulmaire (689)
 * Saint Severa of Oehren, Abbess of Oehren near Trier in Germany (c. 750)
 * Saint Ansegisus, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France at the age of eighteen, he later restored several monasteries (c. 833)
 * Hieromartyr Paul the Deacon of Córdoba (851)
 * Saint Ethelwida (Ealhswith, Elswith), widow of King Alfred the Great (902)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Martyr Salome of Jerusalem and Kartli, who suffered under the Persians (13th century)
 * Saint Abramius of Galich, near Chukhloma Lake, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1375)
 * Saint Elias (Chavchavadze) the Righteous of Georgia (1907)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Constantine Slovtsov, Priests (1918)
 * New Martyrs Lydia, with soldiers Alexei and Cyril, near Ufa (1928)
 * New Hieromartyrs at Voronezh (1930):
 * Archimandrite Tikhon (Krechkov);
 * Hieromonks George (Pozharov) and Cosmas (Vyaznikov);
 * Priests John Steblin-Kamensky, Sergius Gortinsky, Theodore Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and George Nikitin;
 * Martyrs Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov.


 * New Hieromartyr Alexis Znamensky, Priest (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Theodore Abrosimov (1941)
 * New Martyrs of Paris:
 * Archpriest Alexis Medvedkov, of Ugine, France (1934);
 * Elias Fondaminsky (1942);
 * Priest Demetrius Klepinine (1944);
 * George Skobtsov (1944); and
 * Nun Maria (Skobtsova) (1945)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God "Chukhloma" from Galich (Galich-Chukhlomsk - "Tenderness") (1350)   (see also: May 28, August 15)
 * Icon of the Mother of God "Orshansk" (1631)  (see also: September 5)
 * Icon of the Mother of God "Abalatsk" ("Sign") (1637)  (see also: November 27)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1649) of Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest, Hegumen of the Monastery of St Simeon Stylites in Brest (1648)
 * Repose of Priest Valentine Amphiteatrov of Moscow (1908)
 * Repose of Schema-nun Sarah of Borodino (1908)