# February 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 4
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 16 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For February 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 21.

## Feasts

* Afterfeast of the Meeting of Our Lord.

## Saints

* Prophet Azariah (10th century B.C.)
* Holy and Righteous Symeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess (1st century)
* Martyrs Papias, Diodorus, and Claudianus, at Perge in Pamphylia (250) (see also: October 25)
* Martyr Blaise of Caesarea in Cappadocia (3rd century)
* Martyrs Paul and Simon, by the sword.
* Martyr Paul the Syrian (284-305)
* Martyrs Adrian and Eubulus, at Caesarea in Cappadocia (c. 308-309)
* Venerable Claudius.
* Saint Laurence of Canterbury, the second Archbishop of Canterbury (619) (see also: February 2 - West)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Celerinus the Martyr (c.250)
* Martyrs Laurentinus, Ignatius and Celerina, martyrs in North Africa (3rd century)
* Martyrs Felix, Symphronius (Sempronius), Hippolytus and Companions, a group of martyrs in North Africa.
* Saints Tigides (4th century) and Remedius (419), two bishops who succeeded one another as Bishops of Gap in France.
* Virgin-martyr Ia of Cornwall (Hia, Ives), a Cornish evangelist and martyr (450)
* Saints Lupicinus and Felix, Bishops of Lyons in France (5th century)
* Saint Laurence the Illuminator (Lawrence of Spoleto), Bishop of Spoleto, then founder of Farfa Abbey (576)
* Saint Philip of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 578)
* Saint Caellainn (Caoilfionn), a church in Roscommon in Ireland is dedicated to her (6th century?)
* Saint Hadelin of Dinant, founder of the monastery of Chelles, in Belgium (690)
* Saint Werburga of Chester, Abbess (c. 700)
* Saint Berlinda of Meerbeke (Berlindis, Bellaude), a niece of St Amandus, she became a nun at Moorsel near Alost in Belgium, and later an anchoress in Meerbeke (702)
* Saint Werburgh of Bardney, a widow who became a nun, probably at Bardney Abbey in England, where she later became Abbess (c. 785)
* Saint Deodatus, a monk at Lagny Abbey in France (8th century)
* Saint Ansgar of Hamburg, Bishop of Hamburg, Enlightener of Denmark and Sweden, "Apostle of the North" (865)
* Saint Anatolius, a bishop in Scotland, who went to Rome on pilgrimage and settled as a hermit in Salins in the Jura in France (9th century)
* Saint Liafdag, Bishop in Jutland in Denmark, martyred by pagans (c. 980)
* Saint Oliver of Ancona (Oliverius, Liberius), a monk at Santa Maria di Portonuovo in Ancona in Italy (c. 1050)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Sviatoslav-Gabriel and his son Saint Dimitry, of Yuriev (1253)
* Saint Romanus of Uglich, Prince of Uglich (1285)
* Saint Symeon of Tver, Bishop of Polotsk and Tver, first bishop there (1289)
* Saint James (Jakov I), Archbishop of Serbia (1292)
* Venerable Sabbas of Ioannina (15th century)
* Saint Ignatius of Mariupol in the Crimea, Metropolitan of Gothia and Kafa (1786)
* New Martyrs Stamatius and John, brothers, and their companion Nicholas, of Spetses, at Chios (1822)
* Saint Nicholas of Japan, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Japan (1912) [with Saint Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of Siberia and Alaska (1879)]

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Vladimir (Zagreba), Hieromonk of Borisoglebsk Monastery, Novotorzhok (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Basil Zalessky, Archpriest, of Astrakhan (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Adrian Troitsky, Archpriest, of Kazan (1938)
* New Hieromartyrs John Tomilov, Timothy Izotov, Priests (1938)
* Martyr Michael Agayev (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Schemamonk Paul of Simonov Monastery (1825), disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky).
* Repose of Hieromonk Isidore of Gethsemane Skete in Moscow (1908)

## Icon gallery

* Illustration in the Bible Historiale of King Asa of Judah destroying the idols, at Azariah's instigation.
* Righteous Symeon the God-receiver.
* Saint Werburga of Chester.
* Saint Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, Enlightener of Denmark and Sweden, "Apostle of the North".
* Saints of Uglich, including St. Romanus of Uglich (second from right).
* Saint Ignatius of Mariupol in the Crimea, Metropolitan of Gothia and Kafa.
* Saint Nicholas of Japan, Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Japan.