July 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 18

2005

• 4th Sunday after Pentecost: Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils
• Romans 6:18-23
• Matthew 8:5-13

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 30 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Great martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (4th century)
• Venerable Irenarchus, Abbot of Solovki (1628)
• Saint Leonides of Ustnedumsk in Vologda, abbot (1654)
• Martyrs Speratus and Veronica and companions, Scillum, near Carthage (180)
• Saint Euphrasius of Ionopolis, bishop
• St. Timothy, fool-for-Christ of Svyatogorsk near Pskov (1563)
• Slaying of Bishop John (Bulin) of Pechersk (Pskov Caves) (1941)
• New Martyrs: Priests Ismael Rozhdestvensky and Michael Rozhdestvensky
• Martyrs: Romanovs

Other Commemorations

• Translation of the Relics of St. Lazarus, monk of Mt. Galerius near Ephesus (1054)
• Glorification (1997) of St. Gabriel of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery (Pskov) and Seven Lakes Monastery (Kazan) (1915).

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar