# July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 22
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 3 by Old Calendar.
For July 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 8.

## Saints

* Prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC) (see also: July 23)
* Hieromartyr Zoticus, Bishop of Comana in Armenia (204)
* Martyrs Theophilus, Trophimus and another 13 martyrs with them (305) (see also: July 23)
* Martyrs Justus and Matthew, and Eugene, at Rome (305)
* Martyrs Theodore and George.
* Holy 3 Martyrs of Melitene, dragged to death.
* Hieromartyr Bargabdesian, Deacon, at Arbela in Assyria (354)
* Saints Paul, Bishop, and John, Priest, ascetics, near Edessa (5th century)
* Venerable Symeon of Emesa, Fool-for-Christ (590), and his fellow ascetic St. John (c. 590) (see also: July 23)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Praxedes, the daughter of the Roman senator Pudens and sister of St Pudentiana (2nd century)
* Saint Julia of Troyes (c. 272)
* Saints Claudius, Justus, Jucundinus and Companions, a group of eight martyrs, who suffered with St Julia in Troyes in France under Aurelian (273)
* Martyr Victor of Marseilles, and soldiers Alexander, Felician and Longinus (c. 290)
* Saint Constantine, a disciple and the first successor of St Benedict at Monte Cassino in Italy (c. 560)
* Saint Arbogast, 7th-century missionary to the Frankish Empire and an early Bishop of Strasbourg (c. 678)
* Saints John and Benignus, twin brothers and monks at Moyenmoutier in France (707)
* Saint Wastrada, the mother of St Gregory of Utrecht, she became a nun at the end of her life (c. 760)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Onuphrius the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
* Venerable Onesimus the Hermit, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th-13th century)
* Venerable Manuel II Palaiologos (Matthew in monasticism) (1425)
* Venerable Raphael (1640-1645) and Parthenius (1660) of Old Agapia Monastery, Romania.
* Saint Parthenius of Radobysdio, Arta, Bishop (1777)
* Ethno-Hieromartyr Meletios (Kyriakos), Bishop of Kitros (1821)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Peter Golubev, Priest (1938)
* New Hieromartyrs Simo Banjac and Milan Stojisavljevic, and the latter’s son Martyr Milan of Glamoc, Serbia (1941-1945)

## Other commemorations

* Synaxis of Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", Constantinople. (see also: August 17)
* Synaxis of Saint Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyricum, in the Church by "Dry Hill".
* Synaxis of the holy martyr Acacius of Cappadocia, in Heptascalon. (see also: May 7)
* Uncovering of the relics (1649) of St. Anna of Kashin, Princess of Kashin (Euphrosyne in monasticism) (1337)
* Uncovering of the relics (1999) of New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937) (see also: August 26)
* Repose of Abbess Arsenia (Sebryakova) of the Ust-Medveditsk Convent (ru) (1905)
* Repose of Abbot Gerasim of the Chudov Monastery (1911)
* Repose of Blessed Anthony Petrovich Shuvalov, wonderworker of Undor-Simbirsk (1942)
* Repose of Abbess Euphemia of the Ravanica and St. Petka monasteries, Serbia (1958)

## Icon gallery

* Prophet Ezekiel.
* Venerable Symeon of Emesa and his fellow faster St. John.
* St. Praxedes, with Pope Paschal I and the Apostle Paul.
* Martyr Victor of Marseilles.
* Venerable Onuphrius the Silent, of the Kiev Caves.
* Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos (Matthew in monasticism).
* St. Anna of Kashin (Euphrosyne in monasticism).
* New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest.
* Abbess Arsenia (Sebryakova) of the Ust-Medveditsk Convent.