June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 5 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Saints

 * Martyrs Zeno and his servant Zenas, of Philadelphia in Arabia (Amman) (304)
 * Martyrs Galacteon and Pompeian, by drowning, in Petra, Constantinople.
 * Martyrs Juliana and her son Saturninus, by fire, in Petra, Constantinople.
 * Hieromartyr Eusebius of Samosata, Bishop of Samosata (380)
 * St. Athanasius, Bishop of Chytri on Cyprus (4th century)
 * 1,480 martyrs of Samaria (Sebasteia) in Palestine (c. 615)
 * Saint Basil, Abbot of Patalaria Monastery (8th-9th centuries)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Flavius Clemens, Flavius Clemens, brother of the Emperor Vespasian and uncle of Titus and Domitian, he was beheaded for the Orthodox Faith (c. 96)
 * Saint Alban, protomartyr of Britain, in the Roman city of Verulamium (modern St Albans) (304)    (see also: June 20 )
 * St. Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola (431)
 * Saint John I of Naples, Bishop of Naples in Italy (5th century)
 * Saint Aaron of Aleth (Aihran, Eran), hermit, monk and abbot at a monastery on Cézembre, a small island near Aleth, opposite Saint-Malo in Brittany, France (c.552)
 * Saint Consortia, founder of a convent in France endowed by King Clotaire after she miraculously healed his dying daughter; she was venerated at Cluny (c. 570)
 * Saint John IV of Naples, known as 'the Peacemaker', he was Bishop of Naples in Italy, where he is venerated as a patron-saint (835)
 * Saint Rotrudis, kinswoman of Charlemagne, a saint whose relics were enshrined at Saint Bertin in Saint-Omer, France (c. 869)
 * Venerable Virgin-martyr Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland, and those with her (870)   (see also: April 2 )

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Gregory, Metropolitan of Wallachia (1834)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Gennadius, Priest (1918)
 * New Hieromartyrs Theodore Smirnov and Gabriel Archangelsky, Deacons (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Michael Stephanovsky.

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Righteous Mary the Cave-digger, of White Mountain Monastery near Voronezh (1822)
 * Repose of Hieromonk Andrew, slain at Comana, Georgia (1993)