July 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

July 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - July 17

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 29 by Old Calendar.[note 1]

For July 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 3.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  • Saint John of Vishnya and Mt. Athos, activist against Uniatism (c. 1630)[7]
  • New Martyr John of Turnovo (1822)[7][9]
  • Saint Theodotus, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1859)[7]

New martyrs and confessors
  • New Hieromartyrs Nicholas of Tarsus (1917) and his son Habib of Damascus (1948)[28]
  • New Hieromartyrs Seraphim, Theognostus, and others of Alma-Ata (1921)[9]
  • Venerable Schema-Abbess Magdalena (Dosmanova) of New Tikhvin Convent in Siberia (1934)[7][9][29]
  • New Confessor Matrona Belyakova, Fool-for-Christ, of Anemnyasevo (1936)[7][9][10][note 14]
  • New Hieromartyrs Jacob (Maskaev), Archbishop of Barnaul,[30][note 15] and Priests Peter Gavrilov and John Mozhirin, and with them Monk-martyr Theodore (Nikitin) and Martyr John (1937)[7][9]
  • New Hieromartyr Ardalion (Ponamarev), Archimandrite, of Kasli (Chelyabinsk) (1938)[7][9][10]

Other commemorations

Notes
  1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. "The same day, the birthday of St. Faustus, a martyr, under Decius. He lived five days fastened on a cross, and being then pierced with arrows, he went to heaven."[6]
  3. "At Sebaste, in Armenia, the holy martyrs Athenogenes, bishop, and ten of his disciples, in the time of the emperor Diocletian."[6]
  4. The ten disciples are:
    • (in Greek) Ριγίνος, Μαξιμίνος, Πατρόφιλος, Ἀθηνογένης, Ἀντίοχος, Ἄμμων, Θεόφραστος, Κλεόνικος, Πέτρος καὶ Ἠσύχιος.
  5. "At Bergamo, St. Domnio, martyr."[6]
  6. "At Treves, St. Valentine, bishop and martyr."[6]
  7. Born in Carthage in North Africa, she was sold into slavery by the Vandal conquerors. The ship on which she was being taken to Gaul stopped in Corsica. At that time heathen festival was being celebrated and when Julia refused to join in, she was immediately martyred by being nailed to a cross. She is the patron-saint of Corsica.
  8. Born in Tongres in Belgium, he lived as a hermit on Jersey in the Channel Islands and was martyred by heathen whom he was trying to convert.
  9. Daughter of St Amelberg and sister of St Gudula. She was a nun at Saintes in Belgium where she was martyred together with two companions by the Huns.
  10. "At Saintes, in France, the holy martyrs Raineldes, virgin, and her companions, who were massacred by barbarians for the Christian faith."[6]
  11. Probably born in Wales, he became a hermit in Brittany and eventually Bishop of Léon. His relics were enshrined in Ploabennec.
  12. "At Capua, St. Vitalian, bishop and confessor."[6]
  13. "At Cordova, in Spain, St. Sisenandus, deacon and martyr, who was strangled by the Saracens for the faith of Christ."[6]
  14. See: (in Russian) Матрона Анемнясевская. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
  15. See: (in Russian) Иаков (Маскаев). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).

References
  1. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Κυριάκος ὁ δήμιος. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  2. (in Greek) 16/07/2023. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.
  3. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Φαῦστος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  4. (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 16 Ιουλίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
  5. July 16. The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
  6. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 209.
  7. July 16/July 29. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  8. Martyrs Paul and two sisters, Chionia (Thea) and Alevtina (Valentina), at Cæsarea in Palestine. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  9. July 29 / July 16. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  10. (in Russian) 29 июля (16 июля). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  11. Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis, and his ten disciples. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  12. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀθηνογένης ἐπίσκοπος Πηδαχθόης καὶ οἱ Δέκα Μαθητές του. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  13. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀθηνογένης. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  14. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντίοχος ἀδελφός του Ἁγίου Πλάτωνα. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  15. Martyr Antiochus the Physician of Sebaste. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  16. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι 15.000 Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Πισιδίᾳ. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  17. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἁγίες πολλὲς Μάρτυρες Γυναῖκες. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  18. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀναστάσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκης. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  19. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐξίθιος (ἢ Εὐδόξιος) Ἐπίσκοπος Θεσσαλονίκης. 16 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  20. July 16. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  21. Virginmartyr Julia of Carthage. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
  22. (in Russian) ИУЛИЯ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  23. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. HELIER, M. (6TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Eighth: July - Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 403-404.
  24. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 341-344.
  25. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. REYNILDIS OR RAINILDA, V.M. (7TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Eighth: July - Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 406-407.
  26. Very Rev. John O'Hanlon. "Article VII.—St. Tenenan, or Tenan, Bishop of Leon, Britany." In: Lives of the Irish Saints: With Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons. VOL. VII. Dublin, 1875. pp. 252-253.
  27. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. VITALIAN, B. (ABOUT 7TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Eighth: July - Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 404-406.
  28. "Patriarchate of Antioch Canonizes Two New Saints, Adds St. Raphael of Brooklyn, All Saints of Antioch Sunday, to Calendar". Antiochian Archdiocese of New York. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  29. (in Russian) Схиигумения Магдалина (Досманова). Ново-Тихвинский женский монастырь: Летопись монастыря.
  30. (in Russian) ИАКОВ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  31. Icon of the Mother of God of Chirsk-Pskov. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

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