July 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 10

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 22 by Old Calendar.

For July 9, Orthodox churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed on June 26.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Pancratius, Bishop of Taormina in Sicily (1st century)
 * Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna in Crete (c. 303)   (see also: September 6, June 14)
 * Martyrs Andreas and Probus, by fire.
 * Monkmartyrs Patermuthius and Coprius, and Martyr Alexander the Soldier, of Egypt (361-363)       (see also: December 17)
 * Saints Patermuthius and Coprius, ascetics, of Egypt (4th century)
 * Saint Theodore of Edessa (Theodore the Savvaitis), Bishop of Edessa (848)
 * Saint Theodosius, Stylite, of Edessa (9th century)
 * Venerable Photius, founder of Akapniou Monastery in Thessaloniki (10th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Anatolia and Audax, martyrs in Rome under Decius (c. 250)
 * Saint Brictius, Bishop of Martola near Spoleto in Umbria in Italy (c. 312)
 * Saint Agrippinus of Autun, Bishop of Autun in France, he ordained St Germanus of Paris to the deaconate and the priesthood (538)
 * Hieromartyrs at Wurzburg: Killian, Bishop in East Franconia and Thuringia, and his companions Hieromonk Colman and Hierodeacon Totman (689)  (see also: July 8 )
 * Saint Golvinus (Golwen), Bishop of St Pol-de-Léon (Quimper) in Brittany (7th century)
 * Saint Everilda (Everildis, Averil), Abbess of a monastery at Everingham in Yorkshire, Northumbria (c. 700)
 * Saint Agilulfus of Cologne, a monk and Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium, and Archbishop of Cologne in Germany (c. 750)
 * Saint Justus of Poland, one of four hermit-brothers in Poland - Sts Benedict, Andrew, Barnabas and Justus (1008)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Euthymius the Enlightener of Karelia (1435)
 * Hieromartyr Peter, Priest, of Cherevkov, Vologda (early 17th century)
 * Venerables Dionysius the Rhetorician (1606) and Metrophanes (17th century), of Little St. Anne’s Skete, Mount Athos.

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Martyr Michael Paknanas the Gardener, of Athens (1770)
 * New Hieromartyr Methodius, Bishop of Lappa on Crete (1793)
 * New Hieromartyr Constantine Lebedev, Priest (1918)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the consecration of the church of Church of St. Mary of the Spring (Zoödochos Pege) in Constantinople (559)
 * Icon of the Mother of God of Cyprus (392), in the village of Stromyn near Moscow.  (see also: April 20 )
 * Icon of the Mother of God of Koloch (1413)
 * Uncovering of the relics of St. Gabriel, Archimandrite of St. Elias Skete, Mt. Athos (1994)
 * Repose of Righteous Patermuphy of Valaam and St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra (c. 1825)
 * Repose of Hierodeacon Melchizedek of the Roslavl Forests (1840)
 * Repose of Priest Ilie Lacatusu of Romania (1983)