February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 25

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 9 (March 8 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

## Feast

* First (4th century) and Second (452) Findings of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist.

## Saints

* Saint John the Harvester (Theristos), of Calabria (9th century)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Montanus, Lucias, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions, at Carthage (259)
* Saint Primitiva (Primitivus), an early martyr, probably in Rome.
* Saint Modestus, Bishop of Trier in Germany and Confessor (489)
* Saint Praetextatus (Prix), Bishop of Rouen in France and Martyr (586)
* Saint Liudhard (Letard), Chaplain and Bishop of Queen Bertha of Kent (c. 600)
* Saint Æthelberht of Kent, King of Kent (616) (see also: February 25)
* Saint Boisil of Melrose Abbey (664) (see also: February 23)
* Saint Cummain Ailbe (Cumine the White), Abbot of Iona (669)
* Saint Betto, a monk at Sainte Colombe in Sens in France, who became Bishop of Auxerre in 889 (918)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Erasmus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (c. 1160)

## Other commemorations

* Uncovering of the relics (1486) of St. Romanus, Prince of Uglich (1285)

## Icon gallery

* John the Baptist.
* Monastery of Saint John Theristus, Bivongi, province of Reggio Calabria, Italy.
* Saint Praetextatus (Prix).
* Replica of the Liudhard medalet, which depicts Liudhard.
* St. Æthelberht of Kent (All Souls College Chapel, Oxford).
* St. Boisil greets St. Cuthbert at Melrose Abbey.
