February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feb. 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 5-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 17 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Venerable Isidore of Pelusium *Blessed George of Vladimir, Great Prince...
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February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feb. 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 7-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 19 by Old Calendarist Local Churches and Patriarchates.-Saints:*Saint Bucolus of Smyrna, bishop...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 18 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
- MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
Agatha of Palermo in SicilySicilySicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,... - 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...
Theodosius of Chernigov, archbishopArchbishopAn archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
(1696) - Martyrs Theodula of AnazarbusAnazarbusAnazarbus in Ancient Cilicia was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River and near its tributary the Sempas Su.A lofty isolated ridge formed its acropolis...
in CiliciaCiliciaIn antiquity, Cilicia was the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau. It existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Byzantine empire...
, Helladius, Macarius, Evagrius, and others - Saint Polyeuctus of Constantinople, PatriarchPatriarchOriginally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a compound of πατριά , "lineage, descent", esp...
- Martyr Anthony of Athens
- New martyrs matushka Agatha of BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
, Schemamonk Eugene, and Paramon (1938, 1939, 1941)
Other commemorations
- Repose of MetropolitanMetropolitan bishopIn Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital.Before the establishment of...
Michael of Serbia (1897)