February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# February 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 21

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 5 (March 4 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

## Saints

* Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Byzantium, Bishop in Byzantium (136)
* Martyrs Didymos, Nemesios and Potamios, in Cyprus.
* Saint Eutropius, martyr (308)
* Hieromartyr Sadoc of Persia (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (343)(see also: October 19)
* Saint Anianus (Aninas).
* Venerable Bessarion the Great, Wonderworker of Egypt (466) (see also: June 6)
* Saint Agatho of Rome, Pope of Rome (682)
* Saint Leo of Catania (Leo the Wonderworker), Bishop of Catania in Sicily (785)
* Venerable Cindeus of Pisidia (Kindeos), Bishop of Pisidia.
* Venerable Plotinus, monk.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Bolcan (Olcan), baptised by St Patrick, Bolcan later became Bishop of Derkan in Ireland (c. 480)
* Saint Valerius (Valier), first Bishop of Couserans in France (5th century?)
* Saint Falco of Maastricht, Bishop of Maastricht in the Netherlands (512)
* Saint Eleutherius of Tournai, Bishop of Tournai (531)
* Saint Mildrith, Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent (c. 700) (see also: July 13)
* Saint Eucherius of Orléans, Bishop of Orleans (c. 740)
* Saint Colgan, called 'the Wise' and 'the Chief Scribe of the Irish' , he was Abbot of Clonmacnoise in Offaly in Ireland (c. 796)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Yaroslav the Wise, great prince of Kyiv, son of the Varangian (Viking) Grand Prince Vladimir the Great (1054)
* Saint Agatho, Wonderworker of the Kyiv Caves Monastery (13th-14th centuries)
* Martyrdom of St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov-Caves Monastery, by beheading, and his disciple St. Bassian of Murom (1570)
* Venerable Martyrs 34 monks and novices of Valaam Monastery, martyred by the Lutherans (1578):

   * Hieromonk Titus,

   * Schemamonk Tikhon,

   * Monks Gelasius, Sergius, Varlaam, Sabbas, Conon, Sylvester, Cyprian, Pimen, John, Samonas, Jonah, David, Cornelius, Niphon, Athanasius, and Serapion; and novices Varlaam, Athanasius, Anthony, Luke, Leontius, Thomas, Dionysius, Philip, Ignatius, Basil, Pachomius, Basil, Theophilus, John, Theodore, and John.

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Nicholas Rozov, Priest (1938)

## Icon gallery

* Saint Agatho of Rome, Pope of Rome.
* Hieromartyr Sadoc of Persia and 128 Martyrs with him.
* Saint Mildrith, Abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet.
* St Leo of Catania the Wonderworker.
* St Leo of Catania the Wonderworker.
* Reliquary shrine of St. Eleutherius of Tournai.
* Saint Eucherius of Orléans.
* Saint Yaroslav the Wise.
* St. Agatho, Wonderworker of the Kyiv Caves Monastery.
* St. Cornelius, abbot of the Pskov-Caves Monastery.
