July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 22

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 3 by Old Calendar.

For July 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 8.

Saints

 * Prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC)   (see also: July 23)
 * Hieromartyr Zoticus, Bishop of Comana in Armenia (204)
 * Martyrs Theophilus, Trophimus and another 13 martyrs with them (305)  (see also: July 23)
 * Martyrs Justus and Matthew, and Eugene, at Rome (305)
 * Martyrs Theodore and George.
 * Holy 3 Martyrs of Melitene, dragged to death.
 * Hieromartyr Bargabdesian, Deacon, at Arbela in Assyria (354)
 * Saints Paul, Bishop, and John, Priest, ascetics, near Edessa (5th century)
 * Venerable Symeon of Emesa, Fool-for-Christ (590), and his fellow ascetic St. John (c. 590)    (see also: July 23)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Praxedes, the daughter of the Roman senator Pudens and sister of St Pudentiana (2nd century)
 * Saint Julia of Troyes (c. 272)
 * Saints Claudius, Justus, Jucundinus and Companions, a group of eight martyrs, who suffered with St Julia in Troyes in France under Aurelian (273)
 * Martyr Victor of Marseilles,  and soldiers Alexander, Felician and Longinus (c. 290)
 * Saint Constantine, a disciple and the first successor of St Benedict at Monte Cassino in Italy (c. 560)
 * Saint Arbogast, 7th-century missionary to the Frankish Empire and an early Bishop of Strasbourg (c. 678)
 * Saints John and Benignus, twin brothers and monks at Moyenmoutier in France (707)
 * Saint Wastrada, the mother of St Gregory of Utrecht, she became a nun at the end of her life (c. 760)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Onuphrius the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
 * Venerable Onesimus the Hermit, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th-13th century)
 * Venerable Manuel II Palaiologos (Matthew in monasticism) (1425)
 * Venerable Raphael (1640-1645) and Parthenius (1660) of Old Agapia Monastery, Romania.
 * Saint Parthenius of Radobysdio, Arta, Bishop (1777)
 * Ethno-Hieromartyr Meletios (Kyriakos), Bishop of Kitros (1821)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Peter Golubev, Priest (1938)
 * New Hieromartyrs Simo Banjac and Milan Stojisavljevic, and the latter’s son Martyr Milan of Glamoc, Serbia (1941-1945)

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", Constantinople.   (see also: August 17)
 * Synaxis of Saint Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyricum, in the Church by "Dry Hill".
 * Synaxis of the holy martyr Acacius of Cappadocia, in Heptascalon. (see also: May 7)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1649) of St. Anna of Kashin, Princess of Kashin (Euphrosyne in monasticism) (1337)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1999) of New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937)   (see also: August 26)
 * Repose of Abbess Arsenia (Sebryakova) of the Ust-Medveditsk Convent (ru) (1905)
 * Repose of Abbot Gerasim of the Chudov Monastery (1911)
 * Repose of Blessed Anthony Petrovich Shuvalov, wonderworker of Undor-Simbirsk (1942)
 * Repose of Abbess Euphemia of the Ravanica and St. Petka monasteries, Serbia (1958)