June 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 10 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 12

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 24 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 11th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 29.

Saints

 * Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas (1st century)
 * Martyr Theopemptus and four others, by the sword.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Felix and Fortunatus, two brothers, born in Vicenza in Italy, who suffered under Diocletian in Aquileia (296)
 * Saint Blitharius (Blier), born in Scotland, he went to France and settled in Seganne in Champagne (7th century)
 * Saint Herebald (Herband), born in Britain, he lived as a hermit in Brittany where a church is dedicated to him (8th century)
 * Saint Tochumra, a holy virgin venerated in Kilmore in Ireland; she was called on by women in labour.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Barnabas of Vasa, near Limassol in Cyprus, Wonderworker.
 * Venerable Barnabas of Vetluga, ascetic of Vetluga (1445)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Martyr Zafeirios of Halkidiki (c. 1821)
 * 222 Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising, at Beijing and other places (1900):
 * Hieromartyr Metrophanes, Chi Sung (Chang Tzi-tzung), Priest;
 * his wife Presvytera Tatiana;
 * his sons John and Isaiah, and Isaiah’s fiancée Maria;
 * the church-school teachers Paul Wang and Ia Wen;
 * and another 215 martyrs.


 * New Hiero-confessor Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, Surgeon, Unmercenary Wonderworker (1961) (see also May 29 )

Other commemorations

 * Appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt. Athos, and the revelation of the hymn "It Is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin) (982)
 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "It Is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin) (10th century)
 * Translation of the relics (1572) of St. Ephraim of Novotorzhk, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery, Novotorzhok (1053)
 * Translation of the relics (c. 1592) of Saint Arcadius of Vyazma and Novotorzhk (1077)
 * Repose of the recluse Melania of Eletz and Zadonsk (1836)
 * Repose of Ivan Vasilievich Kireyevsky, philosopher and Patristic translator (1856)