July 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 22

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 3 by Old Calendar.

For July 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 8.

Saints

• Prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC) <small>(see also: July 23)</small>
• Hieromartyr Zoticus, Bishop of Comana in Armenia (204)
• Martyrs Theophilus, Trophimus and another 13 martyrs with them (305) <small>(see also: July 23)</small>
• Martyrs Justus and Matthew, and Eugene, at Rome (305)
• Martyrs Theodore and George.
• Holy 3 Martyrs of Melitene, dragged to death.
• Hieromartyr Bargabdesian, Deacon, at Arbela in Assyria (354)
• Saints Paul, Bishop, and John, Priest, ascetics, near Edessa (5th century)
• Venerable Symeon of Emesa, Fool-for-Christ (590), and his fellow ascetic St. John (c. 590) <small>(see also: July 23)</small>

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Praxedes, the daughter of the Roman senator Pudens and sister of St Pudentiana (2nd century)
• Saint Julia of Troyes (c. 272)
• Saints Claudius, Justus, Jucundinus and Companions, a group of eight martyrs, who suffered with St Julia in Troyes in France under Aurelian (273)
• Martyr Victor of Marseilles, and soldiers Alexander, Felician and Longinus (c. 290)
• Saint Constantine, a disciple and the first successor of St Benedict at Monte Cassino in Italy (c. 560)
• Saint Arbogast, 7th-century missionary to the Frankish Empire and an early Bishop of Strasbourg (c. 678)
• Saints John and Benignus, twin brothers and monks at Moyenmoutier in France (707)
• Saint Wastrada, the mother of St Gregory of Utrecht, she became a nun at the end of her life (c. 760)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Onuphrius the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
• Venerable Onisim of the Caves, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th-13th century)
• Venerable Manuel II Palaiologos (Matthew in monasticism) (1425)
• Venerable Raphael (1640-1645) and Parthenius (1660) of Old Agapia Monastery, Romania.
• Saint Parthenius of Radobysdio, Arta, Bishop (1777)
• Ethno-Hieromartyr Meletios (Kyriakos), Bishop of Kitros (1821)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Peter Golubev, Priest (1938)
• New Hieromartyrs Simo Banjac and Milan Stojisavljevic, and the latter’s son Martyr Milan of Glamoc, Serbia (1941-1945)

Other commemorations

• Synaxis of Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", Constantinople. <small>(see also: August 17)</small>
• Synaxis of Saint Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyricum, in the Church by "Dry Hill".
• Synaxis of the holy martyr Acacius of Cappadocia, in Heptascalon. <small>(see also: May 7)</small>
• Uncovering of the relics (1649) of St. Anna of Kashin, Princess of Kashin (Euphrosyne in monasticism) (1337) <small>(see also: October 2, June 12)</small>
• Uncovering of the relics (1999) of New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937) <small>(see also: August 26)</small>
• Repose of Abbess Arsenia (Sebryakova) of the Ust-Medveditsk Convent (') (1905)
• Repose of Abbot Gerasim of the Chudov Monastery (1911)
• Repose of Blessed Anthony Petrovich Shuvalov, wonderworker of Undor-Simbirsk (1942)
• Repose of Abbess Euphemia of the Ravanica and St. Petka monasteries, Serbia (1958)