June 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# June 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 21

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 7.

## Saints

* Martyrs Paul, Cyriacus, Paula, Felicilana, Thomas, Felix, Martyrius, Vitaly, Crispinus, and Emilius, in Tomis, Moesia (290)
* Hieromartyrs Aristocleus, priest, the deacon Demetrian, and the reader Athanasius, at Salamis on Cyprus (c. 306) (see also: June 23)
* Hieromartyr Methodius of Olympus in Lycia, Bishop of Patara (312)
* Blessed Studius, founder of the Studion Monastery (5th century)
* Venerable Nahum of Ochrid, Enlightener of the Bulgarians (910)
* The Venerable Two Ascetic Hermits, reposed in peace in the desert.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Novatus, son of Pudens, senator of Rome, and brother of Sts Praxedes and Pudentiana (c. 151)
* Saint Alban, Protomartyr of Britain (c. 303) (see also: June 22 )
* Saint Leucius the Confessor, Bishop of Brindisi (Brentisiopolis) (5th century)
* Hieromartyr Silverius, Pope of Rome (537)
* Saint Govan (Goven, Cofen), hermit who lived in a fissure on the side of coastal cliff near Bosherston, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales (586)
* Saint Florentina (Florence), Abbess, of Spain (c. 636)
* Saint Goban (Gobain), an Irish Benedictine monk and spiritual student of Saint Fursey at Burgh Castle, Norfolk, England (670)
* Saint Bain (Bainus, Bagnus), a monk at Fontenelle in France, he became Bishop of Thérouanne (c. 710)
* Saint Helen (Heliada), Abbess of the convent of Oehren in Trier in Germany (c. 750)
* Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg, Abbot of Weissenburg, and in 968 the first Archbishop of Magdeburg, with jurisdiction over the western Slavs or Sorbs (981)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Minas, Bishop of Polotsk (1116)
* Right-believing Prince Gleb Andreyevich of Vladimir (1175)
* Venerable Callistus I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)
* Venerable Nicholas Kabasilas, Byzantine mystic and theological writer, spiritual child of St. Gregory Sinaitis (1392 or 1397)
* Venerable new monk-martyr Zacharias of Arta, Greece (1782)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Stanislav Nasadil, victim of the Nazi Croatia concentration camp at Gospić (1941)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (1st-2nd century) of Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma, Scythian disciples of Apostle Andrew, to Alushta in Crimea (1st-2nd century)(see also: January 20 )
* Translation of the relics and garments (c. 960) of Apostles Luke, Andrew, and Thomas, Prophet Elisha, and Martyr Lazarus to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.
* Uncovering of the relics (1001) of Edward the Martyr, King of England (978) (see also: March 18 - feast, and February 13 - translation)
* Translation of the relics of St. Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan (1630)
* Finding of the relics (1959) of New Hieromartyr Raphael, Hieromonk, of Mytilene (1463) (see also: April 9 )
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Odigitria" ("Directress"), at the Xenophontos monastery on Mt Athos.
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Modensk-Kosninsk".

## Icon gallery

* Hieromartyr Methodius of Olympus in Lycia, Bishop of Patara.
* Venerable Nahum of Ochrid, Enlightener of the Bulgarians.
* St. Alban, Protomartyr of Britain.
* St. Adalbert of Magdeburg.
* Nicholas Kabasilas.
* New Hieromartyr Stanislav Nasadil.
* The Shrine of St Edward in the Church of St. Edward the Martyr, Brookwood (2018).
* St. Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan.
