February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 1 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 3

An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 15 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For February 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 20.

Feasts

• The Presentation of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple (also The Meeting of the Lord, or Hypapante), 40 days after His sacred birth.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][note 2]}

Saints

• Martyr Agathadorus of Tyana in Cappadocia.^[1][3][8]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Apronian, a Roman executioner who converted to Orthodoxy when taking the martyr St Sisinnius before the tribunal and was then himself martyred (c. 304)^{[9][note 3]}
• Saint Flosculus (Flou), Bishop of Orleans in France (c. 480)^[7][9]
• Saint Laurence of Canterbury, the second Archbishop of Canterbury (619)^{[7][9][10][11][note 4]} (see also: February 3 - East)
• Saint Adalbert I of Ostrevent (Adalbald), founder of Marchiennes Abbey (652)^{[9][12][note 5]}
• Saint Feock, a saint recalled by a church dedication in Cornwall.^{[9] [note 6]}
• Saint Adeloga (Hadeloga), a daughter of Charles Martel, first Abbess of Kitzingen in Germany (c. 745)^{[9][14][note 7]}
• Saint Burchard of Würzburg, first Bishop of Wurzburg (754)
• Martyrs of Ebsdorf, martyred at the Battle of Luneberg Heath near Ebsdorf, Saxony (880)^{[9][15][note 8]}

• Saint Marquard, Bishop of Hildesheim, martyred with others at Ebsdorf in Germany (880)^[9]
• Saint Theodoric, third Bishop of Minden, martyred with others at Ebsdorf in Germany (880)^[9]

• Saint Columbanus, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit near the church of Saint-Bavo in Ghent in Belgium (959)^[9][16]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• New Martyr Jordan of Trebizond, at Constantinople (1650)^[1][3][17]
• New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Hierodeacon, of Constantinople (1676)^[1][3][18]
• Venerable Anthimos (Vagianos) of Chios (1960)^[1][5] (see also: February 15 - Greek)
• Venerable Ekvtime (Kereselidze) the Confessor, of Georgia (1944)^{[19][note 9]} (see also: January 20 - Slavonic)

Other commemorations

• Repose of Schema-monk Seraphim of Valaam Monastery (1860)^[1]

Icons

• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos the Hypapante of Kalamata, patron saint of Kalamata.^[20]
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Apekois" (Ypakoe), at the Church of the Hypapante on Kalymnos.^[21]
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Dreadful Bee", at Leivadi on Kythira.^{[22][note 10]}
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos of Goumenissa.^[23] (see also: August 17)
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "'Flevariotissa' or 'Libya'",^{[note 11]} at Mesaria on the island of Astypalaia.^[24]
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Flevariotissa",^{[note 12]} at Ampelakia on Salamis Island.^[25]
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Chrysaliniotissa",^{[note 13]} in Leukosia, Cyprus.^[26]

Icon gallery

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  The Presentation of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple.
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  The Presentation of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple.
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  The Presentation of our Lord.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "THE Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, called by the Greeks Hypapante (meeting) of the Lord."^[7]
3. "At Rome, on the Salarian road, the passion of St. Apronian, a notary. Whilst he was yet a Gentile, and was leading St. Sisinius out of prison, to present him before the governor Laodicius, he heard a voice from heaven saying, "Come ye, the blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world." At once he believed, was baptized, and after confessing our Lord, received sentence of death."^[7]
4. Sent by St Gregory the Great to England, St Augustine sent him back to Rome to report on the English mission and to bring more help. The second Archbishop of Canterbury from 604, he suffered during the pagan reaction and thought of fleeing to France. He was rebuked by the Apostle Peter in a dream and in the end succeeded in converting Eadbald.
5. Born in Flanders in Belgium, he was a son or grandson of St Gertrude of Hamage. He married a lady named Rictrude, who is also venerated as a saint together with their four children, Maurontius, Clotsindis, Eusebia and Adalsindis. Adalbald was murdered by relatives of his wife who disapproved of the marriage and he was venerated as a martyr.
6. According to the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Feock seems to be identified with Saint Fiacc, commemorated on October 12.^[13]
7. See: (in German) Hadeloga von Kitzingen. Wikipedia. (German Wikipedia).
8. In 880 a Christian army was caught in the ice and snow and was defeated by pagan Norsemen at Ebsdorf in the north of Germany. Among them, St Bruno and four bishops, eleven nobles and many others were slain and venerated as martyrs.
9. See also:

   • (in Georgian) ექვთიმე აღმსარებელი (კერესელიძე). (Georgian Wikipedia).
   • (in Russian) Евфимий Исповедник (Кереселидзе). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).

10. Greek: Κακιᾶς Μέλισσας.
    The icon has this epithet because during a raid of the island by pirates, who wished to plunder the monastery, a colony of bees suddenly appeared that attacked the pirates and forced them to retreat.
11. Greek: Φλεβαριωτίσσης ἢ Λιβύης.
    She is called this because of the dark colour.
12. Greek: Φλεβαριώτισσας.
    She is called this either because the feast day is in the month of February, or according to another tradition, because a vein (Greek: φλέβα) of water had been discovered in this area.
13. Greek: Χρυσαλινιώτισσας' ἢ 'Ἀλινιώτισσας.