June 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 3

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 20.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Pothinus, Bishop of Lyons (177)    (see also: July 25)
 * Martyrs Blandina and Ponticus of Lyons, and companions (177)
 * Martyr Alcibiades, at Lugdunum (Lyons) (177)
 * Holy 38 martyrs, sealed inside a bath house.
 * Three children-martyrs and their mother, by the sword.
 * Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (623)  (see also: May 17, May 25)
 * Saint Nicephorus the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (828)
 * Venerable Marinus of Constantinople, son of St. Mary the New, of Byzia (c. 930)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Hieromartyrs Marcellinus the priest, and Peter the exorcist, at Rome (304)
 * Hieromartyr Erasmus of Formia, Bishop of Formia in Campania, and 20,000 martyrs with him (303)
 * Martyrs Cyriacus and Apollinaris, in North Africa.
 * Saint Eugene I, Pope of Rome, Confessor (657)
 * Venerable Adalgis of Novara (Adalgis of Thiérache, Adelgis, Algis), disciple of St Fursey who preached around Arras and Laon in the north of France (c. 686)
 * Venerable Bodfan (Bobouan), patron saint of Abern in Gwynedd in Wales (7th century)
 * Saint Nicholas the Pilgrim (Nicholas Peregrinus), a Greek Fool-for-Christ, confessor (1094)
 * Saint Odo (Oda, Odo the Good), Archbishop of Canterbury (958)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Nicephorus, Bishop of Milet (11th century)
 * Great-martyr John the New of Suceava (John of Trebizond), at Belgorod (Cetatea Alba) (1330-1340)
 * Right-believing Prince Andrew of Nizhegorod (1365)
 * New Martyr Demetrius of Philadelphia (1657)
 * New Martyr Constantine the former Hagarene, at Constantinople (1819)
 * Martyr Leander, of Epirus.

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God of Kiev-Bratsk (1654)
 * Uncovering of the relics (1819) of St. Juliana, Princess of Vyazma, Novotorzhok (1406)
 * Slaying of Monk Chariton of Holy Archangels Monastery, Kosovo (1999)