June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# June 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 5 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 9.

## Saints

* Martyrs Zeno and his servant Zenas, of Philadelphia in Arabia (Amman) (304)
* Martyrs Galacteon and Pompeian, by drowning, in Petra, Constantinople.
* Martyrs Juliana and her son Saturninus, by fire, in Petra, Constantinople.
* Hieromartyr Eusebius of Samosata, Bishop of Samosata (380)
* St. Athanasius, Bishop of Chytri on Cyprus (4th century)
* 1,480 martyrs of Samaria (Sebasteia) in Palestine (c. 615)
* Saint Basil, Abbot of Patalaria Monastery (8th-9th centuries)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Flavius Clemens, Flavius Clemens, brother of the Emperor Vespasian and uncle of Titus and Domitian, he was beheaded for the Orthodox Faith (c. 96)
* Saint Alban, protomartyr of Britain, in the Roman city of Verulamium (modern St Albans) (304) (see also: June 20 )
* St. Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola (431)
* Saint John I of Naples, Bishop of Naples in Italy (5th century)
* Saint Aaron of Aleth (Aihran, Eran), hermit, monk and abbot at a monastery on Cézembre, a small island near Aleth, opposite Saint-Malo in Brittany, France (c.552)
* Saint Consortia, founder of a convent in France endowed by King Clotaire after she miraculously healed his dying daughter; she was venerated at Cluny (c. 570)
* Saint John IV of Naples, known as 'the Peacemaker', he was Bishop of Naples in Italy, where he is venerated as a patron-saint (835)
* Saint Rotrudis, kinswoman of Charlemagne, a saint whose relics were enshrined at Saint Bertin in Saint-Omer, France (c. 869)
* Venerable Virgin-martyr Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland, and those with her (870) (see also: April 2 )

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Gregory, Metropolitan of Wallachia (1834)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Gennadius, Priest (1918)
* New Hieromartyrs Theodore Smirnov and Gabriel Archangelsky, Deacons (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Michael Stephanovsky.

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Righteous Mary the Cave-digger, of White Mountain Monastery near Voronezh (1822)
* Repose of Hieromonk Andrew, slain at Comana, Georgia (1993)

## Icon gallery

* Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata.
* St. Alban, protomartyr of Britain.
* St. Paulinus the Merciful, Bishop of Nola.
* St. Aaron of Aleth.
