June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 24

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 10.

## Saints

* Martyr Agrippina of Rome and her companions Paula, Bassa, and Agathonica (253-259)
* Hieromartyrs Aristocleus the Priest, Demetrian the Deacon, and Athanasius the Reader, at Salamis on Cyprus (302 or 306) (see also: June 20)
* Martyrs Eustochius, Gaius, Proba, Lollia, and Urban, of Ancyra (4th century)
* Venerable Hesychios the Sinaite, hegumen of Saint Catherine's Monastery (7th century)
* Venerable Barbaros the Myrrhgusher, "the Pentapolitis" (c. 820-829) (see also: May 15 )

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Felix of Sutri, a priest of Sutri in Lazio in Italy, scourged to death under Valerian and Gallienus (257)
* Saint John, a priest in Rome, beheaded under Julian the Apostate (362)
* Saint Moeliai (Moelray), born in Ireland and baptised by St Patrick, he became Abbot of Nendrum Monastery (c. 493)
* Venerable Etheldreda (Audrey, Etheldred, Æthelthryth), Queen and Abbess, foundress of Ely Monastery, England (679) (see also: October 17 - Translation of Relics )
* Saint Hidulf, Count of Hainault in Belgium, he became a monk at Lobbes Abbey which he had helped to found, Benedictine abbot (c. 707)
* Saint Jacob of Toul, Bishop of Toul (769)
* Saint Walhere, a priest in Belgium murdered for his righteousness and venerated as a martyr.

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Nicetas of Thebes in Boetia, and his disciples Theodore, Gregory, and Daniel (1079)
* Saint Dionysius of Polotsk (1182)
* Saint Artemius of Verkola (1545)
* Venerables Joseph, founder (1612), Anthony, and Ioannicius, Abbots of Zaonikiev Monastery, Vologda (17th century)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Kallinikos of Veroia (1821)
* New Hieromartyrs and martyrs of Crete (1821):

   * Gerasimos of Crete;

   * Neophytos of Knossos;

   * Ioakeim of Hersonissos;

   * Hierotheos of Lambis;

   * Zacharias of Sitia;

   * Ioakeim of Petra;

   * Gerasimos of Rethymnos;

   * Kallinikos of Kydonia;

   * Melchisedek of Kissamos;

   * Kallinikos of Diapolis;

   * and those with them, clerics and laymen, in 1821 and 1822.
* New Hieromartyrs Alexander Miropolsky, Alexis Vvedensky, and Peter Smorodintsev, Priests (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Mitrophan (Krasnopolsky), Archbishop of Astrakhan (1919)
* New Hieromartyr Leontius (von Vimpfen), Bishop of Enotaeva, and those with him (1919)
* New Hieromartyr Maxim (Zhizhilenko), Bishop of Serpukhov (1931)

## Other commemorations

* Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir (1982)
* Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1480) (see also: May 21 )
* Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos:

   * "Umileniye" ("Of Tender Feeling") of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1524);

   * "Zaonikiev" (1588)

   * "Vratarnitsa"(1894)
* Translation of the relics of Venerable Michael of Klopsk, Fool-for-Christ of Klopsk Monastery, Novgorod (1482)
* Second translation of the relics (1714) of St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
* Repose of Schemamonk Zosimas of Solovki (1855)
* Repose of Ivan M. Kontzevitch, spiritual writer (1965)

## Icon gallery

* Martyr Agrippina of Rome.
* Venerable Etheldreda (Audrey, Æthelthryth), Queen and Abbess.
* St. Artemius of Verkola.
* New Hieromartyr Mitrophan (Krasnopolsky), Archbishop of Astrakhan.
* Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir.
* Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
* Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos Umileniye" ("Of Tender Feeling") of the Pskov-Caves Monastery.
* Venerable Michael of Klopsk.
* St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan.
