July 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 18

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 30 by Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For July 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 4.

Saints

• Great martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (4th century)^{[1][2][3][4][note 2][note 3]}
• Saint Euphrasius of Ionopolis, Bishop.^[1][6][7][8]
• Venerable Apostles of the Slavs: Cyril and Methodius, Clement of Ohrid, Sava, Angelar, Gorazd and Nahum of Ochrid.^[2][9] (see also: May 11, July 27)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• The Holy Martyrs of Scillium beheaded in Carthage (180):^{[1][2][8][10][11][12][13][14][note 4][note 5]}

• Martyrs Speratus and Veronica, Nartzalus, Cittinus, Veturius, Felix, Aquilinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestia, Donata, and Secunda.

• Saint Marcellina, born in Rome, she was the elder sister of St Ambrose of Milan and St Satyrus (398)^{[11][12][16][note 6][note 7]}
• Venerable Alexios the Man of God, in Rome (411)^{[12][17][note 8][note 9]} (see also: March 17)
• Saint Generosus of Tivoli, venerated in Tivoli in Italy, where his relics are enshrined in the Cathedral.^[12][15]
• Saint Cynllo, a British saint to whom several churches are dedicated in Wales (5th century)^[12]
• Saint Theodosius of Auxerre, Bishop of Auxerre in France c 507-516, who assisted in 511 at the First Council of Orléans (516)^[12][15]
• Saint Ennodius (Magnus Felix Ennodius), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Pavia in Italy, Confessor (521)^{[12][15][18][note 10]}
• Saint Frédégand (Frégô), born in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Foillan, and became a monk and Abbot of Kerkelodor Abbey near Antwerp in Belgium (c. 740)^[12][19]
• Saint Turninus, a priest from Ireland who worked with St Foillan in Holland, and also near Antwerp in Belgium (8th century)^[12] Almost certainly the same as Saint Fredigand.^[19]
• Child-martyr Prince Kenelm of Wales, son of King Coenwulf of Mercia in England, murdered in the forest of Clent and buried in Winchcombe (c. 821)^{[1][8][12][20][21]}
• Saint Andrew Zorard, born in Poland, he lived as a hermit on Mount Zobar in Hungary (c. 1010)^[12]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Timothy, Fool-for-Christ, of Svyatogorsk,^{[note 11]} near Pskov (1563)^[1][8]
• Venerable Irenarchus, Abbot of Solovetsky Monastery (1628)^{[1][8][11][22][23][note 12]}
• Venerable Leonid, founder of Ust-Neduma Monastery in Vologda, Abbot (1654)^{[1][8][11][24][note 13]}

New martyrs and confessors

• Royal Martyrs of Russia: Martyrdom of the Romanovs (17 July 1918)^[25] (see also: July 4)

Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of St. Lazarus the Wonderworker, of Mt. Galesion, near Ephesus (1054)^{[1][7][8][11][26][27]} (see also: November 7, July 18)
• Icon of the Mother of God of Sviatogorsk (1569)^[8][27][28]
• Slaying of Bishop John (Bulin) of Pechersk Pskov Caves (1941)^{[1][note 14]}
• Glorification (1996) and translation of the relics (2000) of St. Gabriel (Zyryanov) of Seven Lakes Monastery in Kazan, and of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery in Pskov (1915)^{[1][note 15]} (see also: September 24)
• Second finding of the relics (1998) of St. Alexander of Svir (1533)^[1]

Icon gallery

• 
  St. Marina the Great Martyr.
• 
  St. Marina the Great Martyr, depicted beating a demon with a hammer (Greece, 1858).
• 
  Venerable Alexios the Man of God.
• 
  St. Andrew Zorard (Svorad).
• 
  Venerable Irenarchus, Abbot of Solovetsky Monastery.
• 
  Venerable Leonid, founder of Ust-Neduma Monastery in Vologda.
• 
  Bishop John (Bulin) of Pskov-Caves Monastery.

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. "THIS Margaret is one of the most widely venerated Saints of the Church, East and West, but nothing is certainly known of her beyond the fact that she was a maiden who suffered death for Christ at Antioch. In the East she is called The Great-Martyr Marina, which name, like Margaret, signifieth a pearl; and her feast is kept on July 12th. From the East her fame spread to the West, and in the seventh century her name, changed to Margaret, appeared in an English Litany. During the middle ages she came to be much beloved throughout Europe, and was venerated as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, as such being invoked against demoniac possession, and by women in childbirth, and by those who were fearful. And hers was one of the voices which encouraged Joan of Arc in her struggle against evil and injustice. In 908 her reputed relicks were stolen from Antioch, and brought to Europe, and finally enshrined in the Cathedral of Montefiascone. At some late date her so-called Acts were written, but these constitute a symbolic naarative concerning the overcoming of evil by Christian simplicity and innocence, and therefore are not regarded as a purely factual account."^[5]
3. Name days celebrated today include:

   • Marina (Μαρίνα).
4. Twelve martyrs, seven men and five women, who suffered at Scillium in North Africa under Septimius Severus. Their names are: Speratus, Narzales, Cythinus, Veturius, Felix, Acyllinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestina, Donata and Secunda. The official Acts of these martyrs still exist.
5. "At Carthage, the birthday of the holy Scillitan martyrs Speratus, Narzales, Cythinus, Veturius, Felix, Acyllinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestina, Donata, and Secunda. By order of the prefect Saturninus, after their first confession of the faith, they were sent to prison, nailed to pieces of wood, and finally beheaded. The relics of Speratus, with the bones of blessed Cyprian and the head of the martyr St. Pantaleon, were carried from Africa into France, and religiously placed in the basilica of St. John the Baptist at Lyons."^[15]
6. She became a nun in 353. Her remains are enshrined in Milan.
7. "At Milan, the virgin St. Marcellina, sister of the blessed bishop Ambrose, who received the religious veil from pope Liberius in the basilica of St. Peter at Rome. Her sanctity is attested by St. Ambrose in his writings."^[15]
8. A saint originally distinguished by the title of 'the man of God'. The son of a Roman senator, in order to serve God in humility, he fled from his parental home disguised as a beggar. He set sail for Edessa where after seventeen years an Icon of the Mother of God proclaimed him 'the man of God'. He fled again and eventually returned to Rome and for years lived unrecognised as a beggar in his own home. After his repose a mysterious voice again proclaimed him 'the man of God'.
9. "AT Rome, St. Alexius, confessor, son of the senator Euphemian. Leaving his spouse untouched the night of his marriage, he withdrew from his house, and after a long pilgrimage returned to Rome, where he was for seventeen years harbored in his father's house as an unknown beggar, thus deluding the world by a new device. But after his death, becoming known through a voice heard in the churches of the city, and by his own writing, he was, under the Sovereign Pontiff, Innocent I., translated to the church of St. Boniface, where he wrought many miracles."^[15]
10. He was entrusted with two missions to Constantinople in connection with the Eutychian controversy. An Orthodox poet, his hymns are very edifying.
11. See: (in Russian) Святогорский Успенский монастырь (Пушкинские Горы). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
12. See: (in Russian) Иринарх Соловецкий. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
13. See: (in Russian) Леонид Устьнедумский. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
14. See: (in Russian) Иоанн (Булин). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
15. See: (in Russian) Гавриил (Зырянов). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).