June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 24

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 10.

Saints

 * Martyr Agrippina of Rome and her companions Paula, Bassa, and Agathonica (253-259)
 * Hieromartyrs Aristocleus the Priest, Demetrian the Deacon, and Athanasius the Reader, at Salamis on Cyprus (302 or 306)  (see also: June 20)
 * Martyrs Eustochius, Gaius, Proba, Lollia, and Urban, of Ancyra (4th century)
 * Venerable Hesychios the Sinaite, hegumen of Saint Catherine's Monastery (7th century)
 * Venerable Barbaros the Myrrhgusher, "the Pentapolitis" (c. 820-829)   (see also: May 15 )

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Felix of Sutri, a priest of Sutri in Lazio in Italy, scourged to death under Valerian and Gallienus (257)
 * Saint John, a priest in Rome, beheaded under Julian the Apostate (362)
 * Saint Moeliai (Moelray), born in Ireland and baptised by St Patrick, he became Abbot of Nendrum Monastery (c. 493)
 * Venerable Etheldreda (Audrey, Etheldred, Æthelthryth), Queen and Abbess, foundress of Ely Monastery, England (679)     (see also: October 17 - Translation of Relics )
 * Saint Hidulf, Count of Hainault in Belgium, he became a monk at Lobbes Abbey which he had helped to found, Benedictine abbot (c. 707)
 * Saint Jacob of Toul, Bishop of Toul (769)
 * Saint Walhere, a priest in Belgium murdered for his righteousness and venerated as a martyr.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Nicetas of Thebes in Boetia, and his disciples Theodore, Gregory, and Daniel (1079)
 * Saint Dionysius of Polotsk (1182)
 * Saint Artemius of Verkola (1545)
 * Venerables Joseph, founder (1612), Anthony, and Ioannicius, Abbots of Zaonikiev Monastery, Vologda (17th century)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Kallinikos of Veroia (1821)
 * New Hieromartyrs and martyrs of Crete (1821):
 * Gerasimos of Crete;
 * Neophytos of Knossos;
 * Ioakeim of Hersonissos;
 * Hierotheos of Lambis;
 * Zacharias of Sitia;
 * Ioakeim of Petra;
 * Gerasimos of Rethymnos;
 * Kallinikos of Kydonia;
 * Melchisedek of Kissamos;
 * Kallinikos of Diapolis;
 * and those with them, clerics and laymen, in 1821 and 1822.


 * New Hieromartyrs Alexander Miropolsky, Alexis Vvedensky, and Peter Smorodintsev, Priests (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Mitrophan (Krasnopolsky), Archbishop of Astrakhan (1919)
 * New Hieromartyr Leontius (von Vimpfen), Bishop of Enotaeva, and those with him (1919)
 * New Hieromartyr Maxim (Zhizhilenko), Bishop of Serpukhov (1931)

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir (1982)
 * Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1480)   (see also: May 21 )
 * Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos:
 * "Umileniye" ("Of Tender Feeling") of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1524);
 * "Zaonikiev" (1588)
 * "Vratarnitsa"(1894)


 * Translation of the relics of Venerable Michael of Klopsk, Fool-for-Christ of Klopsk Monastery, Novgorod (1482)
 * Second translation of the relics (1714) of St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
 * Repose of Schemamonk Zosimas of Solovki (1855)
 * Repose of Ivan M. Kontzevitch, spiritual writer (1965)