June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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June 18 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective June18 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints Martyrs Leontius, Hypatius and Theodoulos at Tripoli in Phoenicia (70–79)June 18/July 1. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). 18 Ιουνίου. Αποστολική Διακονία της Εκκλησίας της Ελλάδος (Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece). Retrieved 02 February 2018.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Λεόντιος ὁ Μάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ Ὕπατος καὶ Θεόδουλος μαρτυρήσαντες. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 18 Ιουνίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).Martyr Leontius at Tripoli in Syria. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Martyr Aetherus of Nicomedia (305)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Αἰθέριος ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ ἐν Νικομηδείᾳ. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. The Two Martyrs of Cyprus.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι δύο Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Κύπρῳ. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Marina the Virgin, of Bithynia (8th century)July 1 / June 18. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Venerable Leontius the Shepherd, monk.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ Ποιμένας ὁ πέραν τοῦ ἄστεως. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Venerable Erasmus.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἔρασμος. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Pre-Schism Western saints Saints Mark and Marcellian, twin brothers and deacons who suffered in Rome under Maximian (c. 287)June 18. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. MARCUS AND MARCELLINUS, MM. (A.D. 286.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Sixth: June. London: John C. Nimmo, 1897. pp. 251-252. Saints Cyriacus and Paula of Málaga, two Christians, stoned to death in Málaga in Spain in the Diocletianic Persecution (305)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κυριακὸς καὶ Παύλα οἱ Μάρτυρες. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Martyr Elpidios, in Gaul (4th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλπίδιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Amandus of Bordeaux, successor of St Delphinus as Bishop of Bordeaux in France, Confessor (c. 431)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀμάνδος Ἐπίσκοπος Μπορντὼ Γαλλίας. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Alena of Brussels, martyr (c. 640) Saint Calogerus the Anchorite, a Greek who lived for thirty-five years as a hermit near Girgenti in Sicily after preaching Christ in the isles of Lipari (c. 486) Saints Gregory, Demetrius and Calogerus, respectively a bishop, archdeacon and abbot in North Africa, driven out by Arian Vandals (5th century)Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ὅσιοι Γρηγόριος, Δημήτριος καὶ Καλόγηρος οἱ Ἀναχωρητές. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Fortunatus the Philosopher, a bishop driven from the north of Italy by the Lombards (c. 569)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Φορτουνάτος ὁ Φιλόσοφος. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Osmanna (Osanna), a nun at the convent of Jouarre in France (c. 700) Saint Guy of Baume, successor of St Berno at Baume Abbey in France, later a hermit near Fay-en-Bresse (c. 940)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Venerable Peter of Koriša, aristocrat who gave away his possessions to become a monk at the Monastery of the Holy Archangels, later a hermit in the Šar Mountains (1275)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ἐκ Σερβίας. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: June 5 ) Venerable Leontius, canonarch of the Kiev Caves (14th century)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ ἐν τοῖς Σπηλαίοις τοῦ Κιέβου. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Leontius of the Kiev Far Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints. 18 июня по старому стилю / 1 июля по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2017 год. Venerable Leontius the Myrrh-gusher (Leontius the Hagiorite), of Argos and of Dionysiou monastery on Mount Athos, clairvoyant (1605)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ὅσιος Λεόντιος ὁ Μυροβλήτης. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Leontius the Hagiorite. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

New martyrs and confessors New Hieromartyr Nicanor (Morozkin), Archimandrite, of Spas-Ruzsky, Moscow (1938) New Hieromartyrs Basil Smirnov, ВАСИЛИЙ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). Alexander Krutitsky, АЛЕКСАНДР. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). Basil Krylov ВАСИЛИЙ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). and Sergius Krotkov, Priests (1938) New Hieromartyr Ioannicius (Lipovac), Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, executed by Communist partisans at the close of World War II (1945)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωαννίκιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Μητροπολίτης Μαυροβουνίου καὶ Παραθαλασσίας. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. (see also: June 4 )

Other commemorations Synaxis of the Church of the Commander-in-Chief Michael the Archangel, near the Church of St. Julian in the Forum, Constantinople.Great Synaxaristes: Σύναξις Ἀρχιστρατήγου Μιχαὴλ ἐν τῷ Φόρῳ. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.The Archangel Michael and Constantinople: Little Known Facts. Mystagogy Resource Center. November 8, 2009. Retrieved 2 February, 2018. Bogolubov Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1155)Great Synaxaristes: Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν Μπογκολιούμπσκϊυ Ρωσίας. 18 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Icon of the Mother of God "the God Loving". OCA - Lives of the Saints. БОГОЛЮБСКАЯ ИКОНА БОЖИЕЙ МАТЕРИ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). Meeting of the Piukhtitsa ("At the Source") Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1894, 1946) Uncovering of the relics (1997) of New Hiero-confessor Victor (Ostrovidov), Bishop of Glazov (1934) ВИКТОР. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

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