June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# June 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 22

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For June 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 8.

## Saints

* Hieromartyr Tertius of Iconium (Terence), Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Iconium (1st century)
* Martyr Julian and his wife Basilissa, and with them Martyrs Celsius, his mother Marcianilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty prison guards, of Antinoe in Egypt (283-305) (see also: January 8 )
* Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (c. 284-305)
* Martyr Aphrodisius in Cilicia.
* Martyrs Kyriakos and Apollinarios, of Africa.
* Saints Julius of Novara, presbyter, and his brother Julian the Deacon (5th century)
* Martyr Archil II, King of Georgia (718 or 744)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Rufinus and Martia, martyrs in one of the early persecutions in Syracuse in Sicily.
* Saint Urciscenus, Seventh Bishop of Pavia in Italy c 183-216 (c. 216)
* Saint Martin of Tongres, seventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium, venerated as the Apostle of the Hesbaye region in Brabant (c. 350)
* Saint Demetria, a virgin-martyr in Rome, sister of St Bibiana and daughter of Sts Flavian and Dafrosa (363)
* Saint Alban of Mainz, a Greek priest from Naxos, sent into exile by the Arians, he preached the Gospel in Germany around Mainz, then martyred by the Arians (c. 400)
* Saint Cormac Ua Liatháin (Cormac of the Sea; Corbmac), a disciple of St Columba and Abbot of Durrow Monastery, Ireland (c. 590)
* Saint Méen (Mevenus, Mewan, Maine), a disciple of St Samson, whom he accompanied to Brittany, and founded the monastery of Saint-Méon (617)
* Saint Agofredus, brother of St Leutfrid (Leffroi), and monk at Holy Cross (La-Croix-Saint-Leuffroi), a monastery near Evreux in the north of France (738)
* Saint Leutfrid (Leufroi), founder of the monastery La Croix-Saint-Ouen (later called Saint-Leufroy) near Evreux in France, where he was abbot for nearly fifty years (738)
* Saint Engelmund of Velsen, an English-born Benedictine missionary to Frisia (c. 739)
* Saint Dominic of Comacchio, a monk at Comacchio near Venice in Italy (c. 820)
* Saint Rodulf (Rudolph, Raoul, Ralph), Abbot, and Archbishop of Bourges, Gaul (866)
* Saint Wolfrid, founder of the monastery of Hohentwiel in Germany (c. 990)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Anastasia of Serbia (Anna), mother of St. Sava (1200)
* Martyr Theodore, right-believing prince of Starodub (1330)
* Martyr Luarsab II, King of Georgia (1622)
* New Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros, near Rhodes, at Chios (1732)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr John Budrin (1918)
* Venerable New Hieroconfessor George (Lavrov), Archimandrite, of Kaluga (1932)
* New Hieromartyr Jonah (Sankov), Hieromonk, of Alpatievo, Moscow (1938)
* New Hieromartyrs Alexis Skvortsov, Paul Uspensky and Nicholas Rozanov, Priests (1938)
* New Martyr Nikita Sukharev (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Uncovering of the relics (1996) of St. Maximus the Greek, of Russia (1556)
* Repose of Schemamonk John "the Muscovite," of Valaam (1933)
* Discovery of the Icon of Panagia Eleousa in Xyniada of Domokou (1962)

## Icon gallery

* Erastus, Olympus, Rhodion, Sosipater, Quartus and Tertius.
* Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia.
* St. Julius of Novara, presbyter.
* Martyr Archil II, King of Georgia.
* St. Alban of Mainz.
* Martyr Luarsab II, King of Georgia.
* Shrine with the relics of St. Maximus the Greek.
