June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 19

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 5.

Saints

 * Martyrs Leontius, Hypatius and Theodoulos at Tripoli in Phoenicia (70–79)
 * Martyr Aetherus of Nicomedia (305)
 * The Two Martyrs of Cyprus.
 * Saint Marina the Virgin, of Bithynia (8th century)
 * Venerable Leontius the Shepherd, monk.
 * Venerable Erasmus.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Mark and Marcellian, twin brothers and deacons who suffered in Rome under Maximian (c. 287)
 * Saints Cyriacus and Paula of Málaga, two Christians, stoned to death in Málaga in Spain in the Diocletianic Persecution (305)
 * Martyr Elpidios, in Gaul (4th century)
 * Saint Amandus of Bordeaux, successor of St Delphinus as Bishop of Bordeaux in France, Confessor (c. 431)
 * Saint Alena of Brussels, martyr (c. 640)
 * Saint Calogerus the Anchorite, a Greek who lived for thirty-five years as a hermit near Girgenti in Sicily after preaching Christ in the isles of Lipari (c. 486)
 * Saints Gregory, Demetrius and Calogerus, respectively a bishop, archdeacon and abbot in North Africa, driven out by Arian Vandals (5th century)
 * Saint Fortunatus the Philosopher, a bishop driven from the north of Italy by the Lombards (c. 569)
 * Saint Osmanna (Osanna), a nun at the convent of Jouarre in France (c. 700)
 * Saint Guy of Baume, successor of St Berno at Baume Abbey in France, later a hermit near Fay-en-Bresse (c. 940)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Peter of Koriša, aristocrat who gave away his possessions to become a monk at the Monastery of the Holy Archangels, later a hermit in the Šar Mountains (1275)  (see also: June 5 )
 * Venerable Leontius, canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th century)
 * Venerable Leontius the Myrrh-gusher (Leontius the Hagiorite), of Argos and of Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos, clairvoyant (1605)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Nicanor (Morozkin), Archimandrite, of Spas-Ruzsky, Moscow (1938)
 * New Hieromartyrs Basil Smirnov, Alexander Krutitsky, Basil Krylov and Sergius Krotkov, Priests (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Ioannicius (Lipovac), Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, executed by Communist partisans at the close of World War II (1945) (see also: June 4 )

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of the Church of the Commander-in-Chief Michael the Archangel, near the Church of St. Julian in the Forum, Constantinople.
 * Bogolubov Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1155)
 * Meeting of the Piukhtitsa ("At the Source") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1894, 1946)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1997) of New Hiero-confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), Bishop of Glazov (1934)