June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 11.

Saints

 * Nativity of St. John the Baptist and Forerunner.
 * Martyrs Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus, and Longinus, near Lazica (4th century)
 * Saint Nicetas of Remesiana, Bishop of Remesiana (Bela Palanka) (c. 414 or 420)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Faustus and Companions, 24 martyrs in Rome.
 * Saint Simplicius of Autun, a married man who lived a virginal life with his wife and became Bishop of Autun (c. 360)
 * Saints Agoard, Agilbert and Companions, holy martyrs in Créteil, now a suburb of Paris in France (5th century)
 * Venerable Germocus, born in Ireland, he was the brother of St Breaca and settled near Mount's Bay in Cornwall (6th century)
 * Saint Alena (Alina) of Brussels, martyred at Forest, Belgium (c. 640)
 * Saint Rumbold of Mechelen (Rumoldus), a monk who became a bishop with St Willibrord in Holland and in Brabant in Belgium, murdered near Malines (c. 775)
 * Saint Theodulphus (Thiou), third Abbot of Lobbes Abbey in Belgium (776)
 * Venerable John the Hermit (Ivan), of Bohemia (845 or 904)
 * Saint Henry (Heric), born in Hery in Yonne in France, he became a monk at the Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre (c. 880)
 * Saint John of Tuy, born in Galicia in Spain, he lived as a hermit near Tuy, where his relics are still enshrined (9th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Anthony of Dymsk, founder of Dymsk Monastery in Novgorod (1224)
 * Saint Mikhail of Tver, Great Prince of Tver (1318)
 * Saint John of Yaransk, monk at Solovki (1561)
 * Righteous Youths John and James, of Meniugi in Novgorod (1566-1569)
 * Saint Athanasius of Paros (1813)
 * Saint Gerasimus (Dobroserdov), Bishop of Astrakhan and Enotaeva (1880)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Martyr Panagiotes of Caesarea in Cappadocia, at Constantinople (1765)

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of the Righteous Zechariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Forerunner.   (see also: September 5)
 * Translation of the relics (1492) of Great-martyr John the New to Suceava, Romania (1330-1340)  (see also: June 2 )