# July 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 21
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 2 by Old Calendar.
For July 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 7.

## Saints

* Holy and glorious Prophet Elijah the Thesbite, whose fiery ascent as it were into the Heavens we celebrate (9th century BC)
* Saint Flavianus II of Antioch, Patriarch and Confessor (518)
* Saint Elias I of Jerusalem, Patriarch and Confessor (518)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Rheticus (Rheticius, Rhetice), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Autun in France (334)
* Saint Aurelius of Carthage, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (429)
* Saint Severa of St Gemma, Abbess of St Gemma (later Sainte-Sevère) in Villeneuve near Bourges, the sister of St Modoald, Bishop of Trier (c. 680)
* Saint Wulmar of Boulogne (Ulmar, Ulmer, Vilmarus, Volmar), founder of the monastery of Samer near Boulogne, later called Saint-Vulmaire (689)
* Saint Severa of Oehren, Abbess of Oehren near Trier in Germany (c. 750)
* Saint Ansegisus, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France at the age of eighteen, he later restored several monasteries (c. 833)
* Hieromartyr Paul the Deacon of Córdoba (851)
* Saint Ethelwida (Ealhswith, Elswith), widow of King Alfred the Great (902)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Martyr Salome of Jerusalem and Kartli, who suffered under the Persians (13th century)
* Saint Abramius of Galich, near Chukhloma Lake, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1375)
* Saint Elias (Chavchavadze) the Righteous of Georgia (1907)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Constantine Slovtsov, Priests (1918)
* New Martyrs Lydia, with soldiers Alexei and Cyril, near Ufa (1928)
* New Hieromartyrs at Voronezh (1930):
   * Archimandrite Tikhon (Krechkov);
   * Hieromonks George (Pozharov) and Cosmas (Vyaznikov);
   * Priests John Steblin-Kamensky, Sergius Gortinsky, Theodore Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and George Nikitin;
   * Martyrs Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov.
* New Hieromartyr Alexis Znamensky, Priest (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Theodore Abrosimov (1941)
* New Martyrs of Paris:
   * Archpriest Alexis Medvedkov, of Ugine, France (1934);
   * Elias Fondaminsky (1942);
   * Priest Demetrius Klepinine (1944);
   * George Skobtsov (1944); and
   * Nun Maria (Skobtsova) (1945)

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Mother of God "Chukhloma" from Galich (Galich-Chukhlomsk - "Tenderness") (1350) (see also: May 28, August 15)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Orshansk" (1631) (see also: September 5)
* Icon of the Mother of God "Abalatsk" ("Sign") (1637) (see also: November 27)
* Uncovering of the relics (1649) of Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest, Hegumen of the Monastery of St Simeon Stylites in Brest (1648)
* Repose of Priest Valentine Amphiteatrov of Moscow (1908)
* Repose of Schema-nun Sarah of Borodino (1908)

## Icon gallery

* Prophet Elijah the Thesbite.
* Elijah's fiery ascent into heaven (St. John the Baptist Church at the Jordan River).
* St. Abramius of Galich.
* St. Elias (Chavchavadze).
* St. Maria (Skobtsova) of Paris.
* New Hieromartyr John Steblin-Kamensky, priest.
* Galich-Chukhlomsk Icon of the Mother of God.
* Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest.