July 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 23

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 4 by Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Holy Myrrh-bearer and Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene (1st century)      (see also: May 4)
 * Saint Cyril I, Patriarch of Antioch (298)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Pancharius (Pancratius), Bishop of Besançon in France, he suffered much under the Arian Emperor Constantius (c. 356)
 * Saint Movean (Biteus), a disciple of St Patrick and Abbot of Inis-Coosery in Co. Down in Ireland, he also lived in Perthshire in Scotland where he reposed as a hermit.
 * Saint Dabius (Davius), a priest from Ireland who preached in Scotland, where churches are dedicated to him.
 * Saint Wandregisilus of Caux, Gaul (668)
 * Venerable Meneleus (Ménélé, Mauvier), a monk at Carméry in Auvergne, later restoring the monastery of Menat near Clermont (c. 720)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Virgin-martyr Markella of Chios (14th century)
 * Blessed Cyprian of Suzdal, Fool-for-Christ (1622)
 * Venerable Cornelius of Pereyaslavl, monk, father-confessor of Alexandrov Convent (1693)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Michael Nakaryakov, Priest (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Alexis Ilinsky, Priest (1931)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics (403-404) of Hieromartyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope (117)   (see also: July 23, September 22)