# June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 4
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For June 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 21.

## Saints

* Hieromartyrs Lucian the bishop, Maxianus the presbyter, Julian the deacon, and Martyrs Marcellinus and Saturninus, at Beauvais in Gaul (c. 81-96)
* Martyrs Lucillian and those with him, at Byzantium (c. 270-275):
   * Four youths — Claudius, Hypatius, Paul, and Dionysius — and the virgin Paula.
* Saint Achillas, Bishop of Alexandria (312)
* Saint Hieria, widow, of Mesopotamia (312)
* Monk-martyr Barsabas, Abbot, of Ishtar, and ten companions, in Persia (342)
* Venerable Pappos, Bishop of Chytri (Kythrea), Cyprus (368)
* Monk-martyr Isaac of Córdoba (851)
* Venerable Athanasius the Wonderworker, hieromonk of Traiannou Monastery in Bithynia (c. 933)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Cominus, a companion of St Photinus (Pothinus) and martyr in Lyons, France (2nd century)
* Saints Pergentinus and Laurentinus, two brothers martyred in Arezzo in Italy under Decius (251)
* Saint Caecilius (Caecilian), a priest in Carthage in North Africa who converted St Cyprian to Christ (3rd century)
* Saint Oliva of Anagni, a nun at Anagni near Rome (492)
* Saint Hilary (Hilaire), Bishop of Carcassonne in France (5th century))
* Saint Clotilde (Chlotilda), Queen of France, who completed the basilica of St. Genevieve at Paris (545)
* Venerable Liphardus (Lifard), a prominent lawyer in Orleans in France, who at the age of fifty founded the monastery of Meung-sur-Loire, Confessor (c. 550)
* Venerable Urbicius, fellow ascetic of St. Liphardus, became abbot of the monastery of Meung-sur-Loire (6th century)
* Venerable Cronan, a disciple of St Kevin in Ireland (617)
* Saint Kevin of Glendalough (Coemgen, Caoimhghin), hermit and abbot, of Glendalough, Ireland (618)
* Saint Genesius of Clermont, Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne in France (662)
* Saint Glunshallaich, a repentant man in Ireland, converted by St Kevin and buried with him at Glendalough (7th century)
* Saint Gausmarus, Abbot of St Martin of Savigny in France from 954-984 (984)
* Saint Davinus, pilgrim, confessor (1051)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* New Hieromartyr Joseph III (Antonopoulos), Metropolitan of Thessalonica (1821)
* New Hieromartyr Gregory of Derkon, Metropolitan of Derkon, near the Istanbul suburb of St Stephen (1821)
* New Hieromartyr Dorotheos of Adrianople, Metropolitan of Adrianople (1821)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Cyprian (Nelidov), Hieromonk, of Moscow (1934)
* New Hieromartyr Michael Markov, Priest (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (1606) of the martyred Crown Prince Demetrius (1591), from Uglich to Moscow.
* Icon of the Theotokos "Yugskaya" (1615)
* Repose of Archimandrite Justin (Pârvu) of Petru Vodă Monastery, Romania (2013)

## Icon gallery

* St. Clotilde (Chlotilda), Queen of France, at prayer.
* St. Kevin of Glendalough.
* New Hieromartyr Dorotheos of Adrianople, Metropolitan of Adrianople.
* Martyred Crown Prince Dmitry of Uglich.
* Icon of the Theotokos "Yugskaya".
* Archimandrite Justin (Pârvu) of Petru Vodă Monastery.