# July 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - July 17
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 29 by Old Calendar.
For July 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 3.

## Saints

* Saint Kyriakos the Executioner (Cyriacus), who had beheaded the martyr Antiochus of Sulcis, then converted to Christ and was beheaded (c. 110) (see also: December 13)
* Martyr Faustus, by crucifixion, under Decius (c. 249-251)
* Martyrs Paul and his two sisters Chionia (Thea) and Alevtina (Valentina) at Caesarea Palaestina (308) (see also: July 18)
* Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis, and his ten disciples (c. 311)
   * Martyr Athenogenes, by fire.
* Martyr Antiochus of Sebaste, Physician (4th century)
* 15,000 Martyrs of Pisidia, who believed in Christ through Saint Marina, by the sword.
* Many Holy Women Martyred by the sword.
* Saint Anastasius I, Bishop of Thessaloniki, a father of the Fourth Ecumenical Council (via his representative) (451)
* Saint Auxitheus (or Eudoxius), Bishop of Thessaloniki, one of the great Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council (458)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Domnio, a martyr in Bergamo in Italy under Diocletian (c. 295)
* Saint Valentine of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (or more probably Tongres in Belgium), under Diocletian (c. 305)
* Virgin-martyr Julia of Carthage, by crucifixion, at Corsica (c. 440)
* Martyr Helier of Jersey (6th century)
* Saint Reineldis (Raineldis, Reinaldes) and Companions, martyred by the Huns (c. 680)
* Saint Generosus, Abbot of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes in Poitou in France (c. 682)
* Saint Ténénan, Bishop of Léon (7th century)
* Saint Vitalian of Capua, Bishop of Capua in Italy (7th century)
* Saint Vitalian of Osimo, Bishop of Osimo in Italy (776)
* Martyr Sisenandus Córdoba, a Deacon in the church of St Acisclus in Córdoba in Spain, beheaded under Abderrahman II (851)
* Saint Irmengard (Irmgard of Chiemsee), Abbess of Buchau and then of Chiemsee in Germany (866)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint John of Vishnya and Mt. Athos, activist against Uniatism (c. 1630)
* New Martyr John of Turnovo (1822)
* Saint Theodotus, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1859)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyrs Nicholas of Tarsus (1917) and his son Habib of Damascus (1948)
* New Hieromartyrs Seraphim, Theognostus, and others of Alma-Ata (1921)
* Venerable Schema-Abbess Magdalena (Dosmanova) of New Tikhvin Convent in Siberia (1934)
* New Confessor Matrona Belyakova, Fool-for-Christ, of Anemnyasevo (1936)
* New Hieromartyrs Jacob (Maskaev), Archbishop of Barnaul, and Priests Peter Gavrilov and John Mozhirin, and with them Monk-martyr Theodore (Nikitin) and Martyr John (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Ardalion (Ponamarev), Archimandrite, of Kasli (Chelyabinsk) (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Mother of God of Chirsk-Pskov (1420)

## Icon gallery

* Virgin-martyr Julia of Carthage.
* Virgin-martyr Julia of Carthage.
* St. Helier of Jersey.
* Reliquary of St. Irmengard of Chiemsee.
* New Confessor Matrona Belyakova, Fool-for-Christ, of Anemnyasevo.
* New Hieromartyr Jacob (Maskaev), Archbishop of Barnaul.