# February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

February 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 23
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 7 (March 6 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For February 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 9.

## Saints

* Saint Abilius (Avilius), Bishop of Alexandria (98)
* Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome (136)
* Saint Papias, Bishop of Hierapolis (2nd century)
* Martyr Synesius (Synetus), by the sword.
* Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria (286-305) (see also: December 27)
* Martyrs Anthusa and her 12 servants, by the sword.
* Saint Titus of Bostra, Bishop of Bostra in Arabia (378)
* Saint Ariston the Wonderworker, Bishop of Arsinoe, Cyprus (Famagusta) (c. late 4th - early 5th centuries)
* Venerable Baradates, hermit near Antioch (469)
* Venerable Saints Thalassius and Limneus hermits near Cyrrhus (5th century)
* Holy Nine Children of Kola, Georgia (6th century):
   * Guram, Adarnasе, Baqar, Vache, Bardzim, Dachi, Dzhuansher, Ramaz, and Parsman.
* Saint Leontius of Lycia (6th century)
* Saints Babylus and his wife Comnita, of Nicosa (7th century)
* Venerable Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople (821)
* Saint Peter the Stylite of Mount Athos.
* Saint Blaise, Bishop.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Paschasius, eleventh Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 312)
* Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna (c. 556) (see also: February 21)
* Saint Elwin (Elwen), missionary, a holy man who accompanied St Breaca from Ireland to Cornwall (6th century)
* Saint John the Saxon, born in Saxony in Germany, he restored monasticism in England after the Danish attacks, Abbot of Athelney (895)
* Saint Raynerius (Raynier), a Benedictine monk at Beaulieu near Limoges, France (c. 967)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Herman, founder of Stolobny Monastery, Novgorod (1614)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Michael Lisitsyn, priest, of Ust-Labinskaya (1918)
* New Hieromartyrs Joseph Smirnov, Protopresbyter, and Vladimir Ilinsky, Priest (1918)
* New Hieromartyrs John Kastorsky, Deacon, and John Perebaskin, of Kostroma-Galich (1918)
* New Martyr Blessed Theoktista Mikhailovna, Fool-for-Christ, of Voronezh (1936)
* New Hieromartyrs Michael Gorbunov, John Orlov, Victor Morigerovsky, John Parushnikov, Sergius Belokurov, Andrew Yasenev, and Paul Smirnov, Priests (1938)
* New Hieromartyrs Sergius Bukashkin and Antipas Kirillov, Hieromonks (1938)
* Virgin-martyrs Elizabeth Timokhin, Irene Smirnov, and Barbara Losev (1938)
* Virgin-martyr Parasceva Makarov (1938)
* Martyrs Stephen Frantov and Nicholas Nekrasov (1938)
* Martyrs Leonid Salkov and Peter Antonov, of Alma-Ata (1938)
* Martyr Andrew Gnevishev of Tver (1941)
* New Hieromartyr Philaret (Pryakhin), Abbot, of Trubino, Tver (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Uncovering of the relics (607-610) of the Holy Apostles Andronicus and Junia (1st century) and the Holy Martyrs, at the Gate of Eugenius at Constantinople.
* Repose of Righteous Gregory (“Golden Grits”) Miroshnikov of Sednev (1855)
* Repose of Schemanun Avramia of Kashin (1855)
* Repose of Blessed Theoktista Mikhailovna, Fool-for-Christ, of Voronezh (1936)

## Icon gallery

* Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome.
* Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna.