February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feb. 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 6-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 18 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Martyr Agatha of Palermo in Sicily*Saint Theodosius of Chernigov, archbishop...
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February 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feb. 6 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 8-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 20 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Parthenius of Lampsacus, bishop *Venerable Luke of Hellas...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 19 (new style) by Old Calendarist Local Churches and Patriarchates.Saints
- 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...
Bucolus of Smyrna, 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...
(100100Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Traianus and Frontinus...
) - Saint Photius, Patriarch of ConstantinoplePatriarch of ConstantinopleThe Ecumenical Patriarch is the Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome – ranking as primus inter pares in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church....
(891891Year 891 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Arnulf of Carinthia defeats the Normans at the Battle of Leuven....
) - MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
Julian of Emesa (312312Year 312 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Licinianus...
) - Martyrs Fausta, EvilasiusFausta and EvilasiusSaint Fausta, also known as Saint Fausta of Cyzicus , was a fourth-century girl who was arrested, tortured and executed for being a Christian. Evilasius was responsible for torturing and executing her, who was 13 years old at that time. Evilasius was converted to Christianity after watching her...
, and Maximus, at CyzicusCyzicusCyzicus was an ancient town of Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peninsula , a tombolo which is said to have originally been an island in the Sea of Marmara only to be connected to the mainland in historic...
(311311Year 311 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Maximinus...
-315315Year 315 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantinus and Licinianus...
) - Martyrs DorothyDorothea of CaesareaSaint Dorothy is a 4th century virgin martyr who was executed at Caesarea Mazaca. Evidence for her actual historical existence or acta is very sparse. She is called a martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution, although her death occurred after the resignation of Diocletian himself...
, her sisters Christina and Callista, Theopilos, and Theophilus at Caesarea in Cappadocia (288288Year 288 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Ianuarianus...
-300300Year 300 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Valerius...
) - Martyrs Martha, Mary, and their brother Lycarion, in EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
- Saint Barsanuphius the Great, 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...
of PalestinePalestinePalestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
(6th century) - Saint Dorothy of Kashin, schemanun
- Martyr Faustus of Darion, in ConstantinopleConstantinopleConstantinople 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:...
- Martyr Basil of Darion, in Constantinople
- Martyr Silvanus of Darion, in Constantinople
- Saint John of Thebes, monk
- Saint James the Ascetic
Other commemorations
- Repose of 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...
Theophan of Poltava (1940)