June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 22

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Tertius of Iconium (Terence), Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Iconium (1st century)
 * Martyr Julian and his wife Basilissa, and with them Martyrs Celsius, his mother Marcianilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty prison guards, of Antinoe in Egypt (283-305)  (see also: January 8 )
 * Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (c. 284-305)
 * Martyr Aphrodisius in Cilicia.
 * Martyrs Kyriakos and Apollinarios, of Africa.
 * Saints Julius of Novara, presbyter, and his brother Julian the Deacon (5th century)
 * Martyr Archil II, King of Georgia (718 or 744)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Rufinus and Martia, martyrs in one of the early persecutions in Syracuse in Sicily.
 * Saint Urciscenus, Seventh Bishop of Pavia in Italy c 183-216 (c. 216)
 * Saint Martin of Tongres, seventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium, venerated as the Apostle of the Hesbaye region in Brabant (c. 350)
 * Saint Demetria, a virgin-martyr in Rome, sister of St Bibiana and daughter of Sts Flavian and Dafrosa (363)
 * Saint Alban of Mainz, a Greek priest from Naxos, sent into exile by the Arians, he preached the Gospel in Germany around Mainz, then martyred by the Arians (c. 400)
 * Saint Cormac Ua Liatháin (Cormac of the Sea; Corbmac), a disciple of St Columba and Abbot of Durrow Monastery, Ireland (c. 590)
 * Saint Méen (Mevenus, Mewan, Maine), a disciple of St Samson, whom he accompanied to Brittany, and founded the monastery of Saint-Méon (617)
 * Saint Agofredus, brother of St Leutfrid (Leffroi), and monk at Holy Cross (La-Croix-Saint-Leuffroi), a monastery near Evreux in the north of France (738)
 * Saint Leutfrid (Leufroi), founder of the monastery La Croix-Saint-Ouen (later called Saint-Leufroy) near Evreux in France, where he was abbot for nearly fifty years (738)
 * Saint Engelmund of Velsen, an English-born Benedictine missionary to Frisia (c. 739)
 * Saint Dominic of Comacchio, a monk at Comacchio near Venice in Italy (c. 820)
 * Saint Rodulf (Rudolph, Raoul, Ralph), Abbot, and Archbishop of Bourges, Gaul (866)
 * Saint Wolfrid, founder of the monastery of Hohentwiel in Germany (c. 990)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Anastasia of Serbia (Anna), mother of St. Sava (1200)
 * Martyr Theodore, right-believing prince of Starodub (1330)
 * Martyr Luarsab II, King of Georgia (1622)
 * New Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros, near Rhodes, at Chios (1732)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr John Budrin (1918)
 * Venerable New Hieroconfessor George (Lavrov), Archimandrite, of Kaluga (1932)
 * New Hieromartyr Jonah (Sankov), Hieromonk, of Alpatievo, Moscow (1938)
 * New Hieromartyrs Alexis Skvortsov, Paul Uspensky and Nicholas Rozanov, Priests (1938)
 * New Martyr Nikita Sukharev (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Uncovering of the relics (1996) of St. Maximus the Greek, of Russia (1556)
 * Repose of Schemamonk John "the Muscovite," of Valaam (1933)
 * Discovery of the Icon of Panagia Eleousa in Xyniada of Domokou (1962)