# July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 8
All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 20 by Old Calendar.
For 7 July, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on June 24.

## Saints

* Martyrs Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, Hesychius, Pappias, Saturninus, and Germanus, of Dyrrachium in Macedonia (2nd century)
* Saint Pantaenus the Confessor, head of the Orthodox School in Alexandria (c. 190 or 203)
* Hieromartyr Evangelus, Bishop of Tomi (Constanţa) in Moesia (c. 284-305)
* Saint Kyriaki the Great Martyr (Cyriaca, Dominica, Nedelja), of Nicomedia (289)
* Hieromartyr Eustathios (Eustace), by fire.
* Hieromartyrs Epictetus, presbyter, and Astion, monk, in Scythia (290)
* Venerable Acacius of Sinai, who is mentioned in The Ladder of Divine Ascent (6th century)
* Venerable Thomas of Mt. Maleon (Malevon), in Laconia (10th century)
* Newly-Revealed (1923) Hieromartyr Vlasios of Akarnania (Blaise), and those with him (1006)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Apollonius, an early Bishop of Brescia and Confessor.
* Saint Illidius (Iflidius, Allyre), fourth Bishop of Clermont in Gaul, greatly revered by St Gregory of Tours (385)
* Saint Prosper of Aquitaine, a married layman who devoted himself to theology (c.455)
* Saint Palladius, first Bishop of the Scots (5th century)
* Saint Bonitus, fourth Abbot of Monte Cassino (c. 582)
* Saint Felix of Nantes, a great Bishop of Nantes in France for some thirty-three years (584)
* Saints Medran and Odran, brothers and disciples of St. Kieran of Ossory (6th century)
* Saint Æthelburh of Faremoutiers (Ethelburgh, Ethelburga, Aubierge), an Anglo-Saxon princess and Abbess of Faremoutiers Abbey (c. 664)
* Saint Ampelius, Bishop of Milan in Italy under the Lombards (c. 672)
* Saint Hædde (Hedda), Bishop of the West Saxons (705)
* Saint Willibald, Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Germans, Bishop of Eichstätt and Enlightener of Bavaria (c. 787)
* Saint Máel Ruain of Tallaght (Maolruain), founder of monastery of Tallaght in County Dublin, Ireland (787)
* Saint Angelelmus, Abbot of Sts Gervase and Protase in Auxerre in France, and then Bishop of Auxerre (828)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Eudoxia of Moscow, in monasticism Euphrosyne, Grand Duchess of Moscow (1407)
* Martyr Polycarp the New.

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Paul Chernyshev, Priest (1918)

## Other commemorations

* Translation (1654) of the icon of the Theotokos Blachernitissa ("Vlaherensk") from Mount Athos to Moscow.
* Kalinovka Miracle of the Bloody Crucifix (1923)
* Miracle of Restoration of the "Image not made by hands" (Acheiropoieta) of Jesus Christ in Saint Boris and Gleb women monastery, Izyum eparchy (1997)
* Uncovering of the relics (2001) of Venerable Gerasimus, Abbot of Boldin (1554)
* Repose of Archimandrite Paisius (Tanasijevic), of the St. Prochorus of Pchinja Monastery, Serbia (2003)

## Icon gallery

* St. Kyriaki the Great Martyr of Nicomedia.
* Venerable Acacius of Sinai.
* Venerable Thomas of Mt. Maleon.
* St. Apollonius, an early Bishop of Brescia.
* St. Prosper of Aquitaine.
* St. Ampelius, Bishop of Milan.
* St. Willibald, Bishop of Eichstätt and Enlightener of Bavaria.
* Icon of the Theotokos kept in Moscow since 1653, considered to be the Blachernitissa.
* Venerable Gerasimus, Abbot of Boldin.