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June 14 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 16All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 28 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Prophet Amos *Saint Jonah of Moscow, Metropolitan and Wonderworker of all Russia...

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June 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 18All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 30 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ismael of Persia *Hieromartyr Philoneides, Bishop of Kurion in Cyprus...



All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 29 by Old Calendarists
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Saints

  • Saint
    Saint
    A 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...

     Tikhon of Amathus
    Amathus
    Amathus was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol...

     in Cyprus
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , 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...

    , bishop
    Bishop
    A 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...

     (5th century)
  • Venerable
    Venerable
    The Venerable is used as a style or epithet in several Christian churches. It is also the common English-language translation of a number of Buddhist titles.-Roman Catholic:...

     Tikhon of Kaluga
    Tikhon of Kaluga
    Tikhon of Kaluga was a Russian abbot and saint. He grew up in Moscow and became a monk as a young man. He then moved to a forest near Medin in Kaluga, living in the hollow of an oak tree. It was on that spot that he founded a monastery, dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God ....

     (1492)
  • Saint Tikhon of Luchov (1503)
  • Saint Tikhon of Krestogorsk in Vologda
    Vologda
    Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...

  • Martyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

    s Tigrius and Eutropius of Constantinople
    Constantinople
    Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...

     (5th century)
  • Saint Mark the Just
    Mark of Apollonias
    Mark of Apollonias was a figure in early Christianity. Tradition holds that he was bishop of Apollonia, and he is sometimes numbered among the Seventy Disciples. Little else is known about him....

     of Apollonia
    Apollonia
    -Places:Albania:* Apollonia, IllyriaBulgaria:* Apollonia, Thrace now SozopolFrance:* Sainte-Apollonie island, Île de Sainte-Apollonie, on the Mayenne river in the French region Pays de la LoireGreece:*Apollonia , a city on Mount Athos...

    , nephew of the Apostle Barnabas
    Barnabas
    Barnabas , born Joseph, was an Early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem. In terms of culture and background, he was a Hellenised Jew, specifically a Levite. Named an apostle in , he and Saint Paul undertook missionary journeys together and defended Gentile converts...

  • Martyr Hermogenes of Tobolsk (Germogen), bishop (1918)
  • Saint Moses of Optina, founder of the Optina Skete
    Skete
    A Skete is a monastic style community that allows relative isolation for monks, but alsoallows for communal services and the safety of shared resources and protection...


Other commemorations

  • Repose of Elder Gerasimus of St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery (1898)
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