June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# June 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 8

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 20 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 7th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 25.

## Saints

* Martyrs Aesia and Susanna, disciples of St. Pancratius of Taormina (1st century)
* Virgin-martyr Potamiaena (193-211):

   * and with her, martyrs: Plutarch, Serenus, Heraclides, Heron, Herais, Marcella, and Basilides, of Alexandria.
* Martyr Zenaida (Zenais) of Caesarea in Palestine, Wonderworker.
* Hieromartyr Theodotus of Ancyra, Bishop (303) (see also: May 18)
* Hieromartyr Marcellinus, Pope of Rome, and with him Martyrs Claudius, Cyrinus, and Antoninus (304) (see also: April 26 - in the West)
* Saint Marcellus, Pope of Rome, and with him the Martyrs (304-310): (see also: January 16 - in the West)

   * Deacons Sisinius and Cyriacus;

   * Soldiers Smaragdus, Largus, Apronian, Saturninus, Pappias, and Maurus;

   * Crescentian, Priscilla, Lucia, and Princess Artemia.
* Martyr Lycarion of Tanis (Hermopolis) in Egypt.
* Martyrs John and Tarasios, by the sword.
* Martyrs Cyria, Kaleria (Valeria), and Maria, of Caesarea in Palestine (4th century) (see also: June 6 )
* Saint Daniel of Scetis in Egypt (420)
* Saints Stephen and Anthimus of Constantinople, Priests, of the Fervent Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant") (5th century)
* Saint Sebastiani the Wonderworker.
* Venerable Anatolius the Sinaite.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Paul I of Constantinople, an Archbishop of Constantinople whose episcopate was largely spent in exile for Orthodoxy (350) (see also: November 6 - in the East)
* Saint Colmán of Dromore, Bishop of Dromore, Ireland (6th century)
* Venerable Vulphy (Wulflagius), a priest near Abbeville in the north of France who lived and reposed as a hermit, wonderworker (c. 643)
* Venerable Modwenna, the successor of St. Hilda as Abbess of Whitby (c. 695 or 699)
* Venerable martyr Aventinus, born in Bagnères-de-Luchon in the Pyrenees in France, he became a hermit in the valley of Larboush, where the Saracens martyred him (732)
* Saint Willibald, Bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria (c. 787)
* Venerable Deochar (Theutger or Gottlieb), a hermit in Franconia in Germany, he became the first abbot of the monastery of Herriedon (847)
* Martyrs Peter, Wallabonsus, Sabinian, Wistremundus, Habentius and Jeremiah, martyred under Abderrahman in Córdoba for publicly denouncing Mohammed (851)
* Venerable Meriadoc (Meriadec), born in Wales, he became a hermit and later Bishop of Vannes in Brittany (c. 886)
* Saint Odo of Massay, Abbot of Massay in France (935-967)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Anthony (in schema Abramius), monk of Kozhaezersk Monastery (1634)
* Venerable Anastasios Gordios, the "Teacher of the Nation", at Vragiana, Evrytania, Greece (1729)
* Venerable Panagis Bassias, Priest of Cephalonia (1883 or 1888)
* Saint Ioannicius (Rudniev), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich (1900) (see also: August 30)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Andronicus (Nikolsky), Archbishop of Perm (1918)
* New Hieromartyrs (1918):

   * Alexander Osetrov, Valentine Belov, Veniamin Lukanin, Viktor Nikiforov, Alexander Mahetov, Paul Anoshkin, Vladimir Belozerov, Ignatius Yakimov, Michael Denisov, Nicholas Onanyov, Paul Sokolov, Alexander Preobrazhensky, Nicholas Rozhdestvensky, Nicholas Konyukhov, Priests;

   * New Hieromartyr Gregory Smirnov, Deacon;

   * Martyrs Athanasius Zhulanov and Alexsander Zuev.
* New Hieromartyr Peter Kuznetsov, Priest (1919)

## Other commemorations

* Synaxis of the Saints of Ivanovo.
* Repose of Anthony Ivanovich, Fool-for-Christ of Valaam (1832)

## Icon gallery

* Hieromartyr Theodotus of Ancyra, Bishop.
* St. Paul I of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople.
* Venerable Deochar.
* St. Ioannicius (Rudnyev), Metropolitan of Kiev and Galich.
* New Hieromartyr Andronicus (Nikolsky), Archbishop of Perm.
