# June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 9
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For June 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 26.

## Saints

* Martyr Calliope (Kalliope), at Rome (c. 250)
* Martyrs Nicander and Marcian, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297 or 303)
* Martyr Mark, by the sword.
* Saint Naucratius, brother of St. Basil the Great (4th century)
* Venerable Melania the Elder, nun, of Palladius’ Lausiac History (410)
* Venerable Atre (Athre) of Nitria in Egypt (5th century)
* Saint Ephraim of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch (545)
* Venerable Zosimas, monk, of Phoenicia (Syria) (6th century)
* Venerable Paul the Confessor, of Kaiuma Monastery in Constantinople (c. 771-775)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Maximinus of Aix, venerated as the first Bishop of Aix in Provence in France (1st century)
* Saint Sallustian of Sardinia, confessor.
* Saint Bron, a disciple of St Patrick and Bishop of Cassel-lrra near Sligo in Ireland (c. 511)
* Saint Gildard (Godard), Bishop of Rouen in France for some fifteen years (514)
* Saint Heraclius of Sens, the fourteenth Bishop of Sens in France (c. 515)
* Saints Severinus of Sanseverino (550) and Victorinus of Camerino (543), brothers who were both bishops and hermits in the 6th century.
* Saint Medardus the Wonderworker, Bishop of Noyon (c. 558)
* Venerable Levan (Selevan), who came to Cornwall and gave his name to St Levan (6th century)
* Saint Eustadiola, born in Bourges in France, as a widow she spent her fortune building Moyenmoutier Abbey, where she became a nun and abbess (690)
* Saint Chlodulf of Metz (Clodulphus, Clodulf), son of St Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, he too became Bishop of Metz, for forty years (696)
* Venerable Muirchú (Maccutinus), a holy man in Ireland who wrote Lives of St Brigid and St Patrick (7th century)
* Venerable Syra (Syria), by tradition, the sister of St Fiacre (Fiaker), an anchoress in France (7th century) (see also: October 23 )

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Theodore, Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal (c. 1023)
* Venerable Theophilus of Luga and Omutch (1412), disciple of St. Arsenius of Konevits.
* New monk-martyr Theophanes, at Constantinople (1559)
* Saint Nicephorus (Cantacuzene), Archdeacon, of Constantinople, who suffered under the Uniates in Marienburg, Galicia (1599)
* New Hieromartyr Theodore, Priest, of Kvelta, Georgia (1609)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics of Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates ("the General"), of Heraclea (319)
* Translation of the relics (1023) of Hieromartyr Alphege, abbot of Canterbury (1012)
* Uncovering of the relics (1501) of Saints Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), Princes of Yaroslavl.
* Synaxis of the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Archangel Michael (the "Michaelion"), in the Sosthenion district of Constantinople.
* Synaxis of the Church of the Cross at Mtskheta, Georgia.
* Glorification of St John of Kronstadt by the Russian Orthodox Church (1990)
* Repose of lay elder Theodore (Sokolov) of White Lake (1973)

### Icons

* Yaroslavl Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (13th century)
* Uryupinsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1821)

## Icon gallery

* Venerable Melania the Elder.
* St. Medardus the Wonderworker, Bishop of Noyon.
* St. Theodore, Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal.
* Great-martyr Theodore Stratelates ("the General"), of Heraclea.
* Yaroslavl Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.