# July 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 18
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 30 by Old Calendar.
For July 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 4.

## Saints

* Great martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (4th century)
* Saint Euphrasius of Ionopolis, Bishop.
* Venerable Apostles of the Slavs: Cyril and Methodius, Clement of Ohrid, Sava, Angelar, Gorazd and Nahum of Ochrid. (see also: May 11, July 27)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* The Holy Martyrs of Scillium beheaded in Carthage (180):
   * Martyrs Speratus and Veronica, Nartzalus, Cittinus, Veturius, Felix, Aquilinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestia, Donata, and Secunda.
* Saint Marcellina, born in Rome, she was the elder sister of St Ambrose of Milan and St Satyrus (398)
* Venerable Alexios the Man of God, in Rome (411) (see also: March 17)
* Saint Generosus of Tivoli, venerated in Tivoli in Italy, where his relics are enshrined in the Cathedral.
* Saint Cynllo, a British saint to whom several churches are dedicated in Wales (5th century)
* Saint Theodosius of Auxerre, Bishop of Auxerre in France c 507-516, who assisted in 511 at the First Council of Orléans (516)
* Saint Ennodius (Magnus Felix Ennodius), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Pavia in Italy, Confessor (521)
* Saint Frédégand (Frégô), born in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Foillan, and became a monk and Abbot of Kerkelodor Abbey near Antwerp in Belgium (c. 740)
* Saint Turninus, a priest from Ireland who worked with St Foillan in Holland, and also near Antwerp in Belgium (8th century) Almost certainly the same as Saint Fredigand.
* Child-martyr Prince Kenelm of Wales, son of King Coenwulf of Mercia in England, murdered in the forest of Clent and buried in Winchcombe (c. 821)
* Saint Andrew Zorard, born in Poland, he lived as a hermit on Mount Zobar in Hungary (c. 1010)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Timothy, Fool-for-Christ, of Svyatogorsk, near Pskov (1563)
* Venerable Irenarchus, Abbot of Solovetsky Monastery (1628)
* Venerable Leonid, founder of Ust-Neduma Monastery in Vologda, Abbot (1654)

### New martyrs and confessors

* Royal Martyrs of Russia: Martyrdom of the Romanovs (17 July 1918) (see also: July 4)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics of St. Lazarus the Wonderworker, of Mt. Galesion, near Ephesus (1054) (see also: November 7, July 18)
* Icon of the Mother of God of Sviatogorsk (1569)
* Slaying of Bishop John (Bulin) of Pechersk Pskov Caves (1941)
* Glorification (1996) and translation of the relics (2000) of St. Gabriel (Zyryanov) of Seven Lakes Monastery in Kazan, and of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery in Pskov (1915) (see also: September 24)
* Second finding of the relics (1998) of St. Alexander of Svir (1533)

## Icon gallery

* St. Marina the Great Martyr.
* St. Marina the Great Martyr, depicted beating a demon with a hammer (Greece, 1858).
* Venerable Alexios the Man of God.
* St. Andrew Zorard (Svorad).
* Venerable Irenarchus, Abbot of Solovetsky Monastery.
* Venerable Leonid, founder of Ust-Neduma Monastery in Vologda.
* Bishop John (Bulin) of Pskov-Caves Monastery.