# July 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - July 25
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 6 by Old Calendar.
For July 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 11.

## Saints

* Saint Athenagoras of Athens, Apologist (c. 190)
* Saint Christina the Great Martyr (Christina of Tyre) (c. 300)
* Martyrs Capito and Hymenaeus, by the sword.
* Martyr Hermogenes, by having his teeth pulled out, dying of infection and bleeding.
* Saint Salumptinus, a Bishop of Jerusalem.
* Holy Martyrs and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb of Russia, in holy baptism Romanus and David (1015)
* Venerable Hilarion of Tvali, Georgia (1041)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Victor, Stercatius and Antinogenes, by tradition three brothers martyred in Merida in Estremadura in Spain (304)
* Saint Vincent, a martyr in Rome outside the walls of the city, on the road to Tivoli.
* Saint Ursicinus of Sens, fourth Bishop of Sens in France and an opponent of Arianism (c. 380)
* Saint Dictinus, Bishop of Astorga in Spain (420)
* Saint Declán of Ardmore, Bishop of Ardmore in Ireland (5th century)
* Saint Lewina (Leofwynn), a Briton and virgin-martyr venerated in Seaford in Sussex, England (5th century)
* Saint Menefrida, patron-saint of Tredresick in Cornwall (5th century)
* Saint Nissen, abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret) Abbey in Wexford, Ireland.
* Saint Godo (Gaon), born in Verdun, a nephew of St Wandrille, he became a monk at Fontenelle Abbey, later founding the monastery of Oye, near Sezanne-en-Brie (c. 690)
* Saints Wulfhad and Rufinus (Ruffin), princes of Mercia, baptised by St Chad, then put to death by their father (unconverted), at Stone in Staffordshire (7th century)
* Saint Christiana, by tradition born in England, she lived a holy life in Flanders and is the patron saint of Termonde in Belgium (7th century)
* Saint Sigolena of Albi (Segoulème), a nun in the convent of Troclar on the Tarn in the south of France, where she later became abbess (c. 769)
* Saint Aliprandus (Leuprandus), Abbot of St Augustine's in Pavia, Italy (8th century)
* Saint Bernulphus, Bishop of Utrecht (1054)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Symeon the Newly-Revealed (born 1042)
* Venerable Polycarp of the Kiev Caves, Archimandrite (1182)
* Venerable Pachomius, Abbot, near Vologda (1479)
* New Martyr Theophilus of Zakynthos, burnt alive in Chios (1635)
* Venerable Bogolep, child schemamonk, of Chorny Yar (Black Ravine), near Astrakhan (1654 or 1667)
* New Martyr Athanasius of Kios in Bithynia, beheaded in Constantinople (1670)
* Saint George (Konissky), Bishop of Mogilev (1795)

### New martyrs and confessors

* 17 New Martyrs of Mgarsk Monastery, Poltava (1919):
   * Abbot Ambrose;
   * Hieromonks Arcadius, Ioannicius, Jonah, Joseph, Nicanor, Athanasius, Theophan, Serapion, Nicostratus, and Julian;
   * Monks Ioannicius, Herman, Nazarius, Parthenius, Potapius, and Dorymedon.
* New Hieromartyr Alpheus, Deacon (1937)
* New Hiero-confessor Nicholas Pongelsky, Priest (1942)
* New Hiero-confessor John Kalinin, Priest, of Olenevka (1951)

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Blessed Monk Tikhon of Turukhan, on the Yenisei River in Siberia (1682)
* Uncovering of the relics (1994) of Venerable Dalmatus, Abbot and founder of the Dormition Monastery in Siberia (1697)

## Icon gallery

* Holy Martyrs and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb.
* Carvings at Saint Declan's Church, Ardmore.
* Saint George (Konissky), Bishop of Mogilev.
* New Hiero-confessor John Kalinin, Priest, of Olenevka.
* Venerable Dalmatus of Perm.