June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 11.

## Saints

* Nativity of St. John the Baptist and Forerunner.
* Martyrs Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus, and Longinus, near Lazica (4th century)
* Saint Nicetas of Remesiana, Bishop of Remesiana (Bela Palanka) (c. 414 or 420)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Faustus and Companions, 24 martyrs in Rome.
* Saint Simplicius of Autun, a married man who lived a virginal life with his wife and became Bishop of Autun (c. 360)
* Saints Agoard, Agilbert and Companions, holy martyrs in Créteil, now a suburb of Paris in France (5th century)
* Venerable Germocus, born in Ireland, he was the brother of St Breaca and settled near Mount's Bay in Cornwall (6th century)
* Saint Alena (Alina) of Brussels, martyred at Forest, Belgium (c. 640)
* Saint Rumbold of Mechelen (Rumoldus), a monk who became a bishop with St Willibrord in Holland and in Brabant in Belgium, murdered near Malines (c. 775)
* Saint Theodulphus (Thiou), third Abbot of Lobbes Abbey in Belgium (776)
* Venerable John the Hermit (Ivan), of Bohemia (845 or 904)
* Saint Henry (Heric), born in Hery in Yonne in France, he became a monk at the Abbey of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre (c. 880)
* Saint John of Tuy, born in Galicia in Spain, he lived as a hermit near Tuy, where his relics are still enshrined (9th century)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Anthony of Dymsk, founder of Dymsk Monastery in Novgorod (1224)
* Saint Mikhail of Tver, Great Prince of Tver (1318)
* Saint John of Yaransk, monk at Solovki (1561)
* Righteous Youths John and James, of Meniugi in Novgorod (1566-1569)
* Saint Athanasius of Paros (1813)
* Saint Gerasimus (Dobroserdov), Bishop of Astrakhan and Enotaeva (1880)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Martyr Panagiotes of Caesarea in Cappadocia, at Constantinople (1765)

## Other commemorations

* Synaxis of the Righteous Zechariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Forerunner. (see also: September 5)
* Translation of the relics (1492) of Great-martyr John the New to Suceava, Romania (1330-1340) (see also: June 2 )

## Icon gallery

* Nativity of St. John the Baptist and Forerunner.
* St. Rumbold of Mechelen.
* St. Mikhail Yaroslavich and his mother Xenia, facing Christ.
* St. Gerasimus (Dobroserdov) of Astrakhan and Enotaeva.
* Scenes from the martyrdom of St. John the New of Suceava.
