February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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February 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feb. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 17-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 1 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:...
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February 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feb. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 19-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 3 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Leo the Great, Pope of Rome...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 2 (March 1) by Old CalendaristsOld calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...
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Saints
- Great martyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
Theodore the Tyro (306306Year 306 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Valerius...
) - Repose of HieromartyrHieromartyrIn the Eastern Orthodox tradition, a hieromartyr is a martyr who was also one of the clergy . In like manner a priest-monk is often called a hieromonk....
Hermogenes of Moscow, Patriarch and Wonderworker of all RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
(1612) - SaintSaintA saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...
Mariamne, sister of Philip the ApostlePhilip the ApostlePhilip the Apostle was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia....
(1st century) - Saint Auxibius of Soli in CyprusCyprusCyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
, bishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the... - Saint Theodosius the BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n and Romanus the Bulgarian, monkMonkA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...
s (14th century ) - Saint Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
- Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mitylene (1795)
Other commemorations
- Uncovering of the relicRelicIn religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...
s of martyr Menas of Alexandria (see December 10) - Repose of Elder Agapitus of the Kiev Caves (1887)
- Repose of Elder Barnabas of the Gethsemane Skete of Saint Sergius' Lavra (1906)