July 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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July 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 21
2005
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 2 by Old Calendarists
Saints
- Holy and glorious Prophet Elijah (9th century BC)
- Saint Elias of Jerusalem, Patriarch and confessor
- Saint Flavius of Antioch, Patriarch and confessor
- Saint Abramius of Galich near Chukhloma Lake, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1375)
- Russian New martyrs Lydia with soldiers Alexei and Cyril (1928)
- Russian New martyrs Philosoph Ornatsky and those with him (1918)
- Russian New martyr Juvenal, deacon
- Martyr Ilia Chavchavadze of Georgia (1907)
- Righteous Martyr Maria Skobtsova (1945)[note 1]
- Priestmartyr Dimitri Klepinin (1945)
Other commemorations
- Uncovering of the relics of martyr Athanasius of Brest-Litovsk at Brest Litovsk (1679)
- Repose of righteous priest Valentine Amphiteatrov (1908)
Notes
- ^ "The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which is based in Istanbul (Turkey) resolved, during its session of 16 January [2004] on the Canonization of Fr Alexis Medvedkov (1867 – 1934), also of Fr Dimitri Klepinine (1904-1944) of Mother Maria (Skobtsova) (1891-1945) and of their companions George (Yuri) Skobtsov (1921-1944) and Elie Fondaminskii (1880-1942), outstanding personalities of the spiritual history of the Russian emigration in France... ...Their liturgical commemoration has been fixed by the Patriarchate on 20 July, the feast of the Holy Prophet Elijah."[1]
References
- ^ The Official Act of Canonization of Mother Maria (Skobtsova), Yuri Skobtsov, Fr Dimitri Klepinine, Elie Fondaminskii and Fr Alexis Medvedkov. IN COMMUNION (Website of Orthodox Peace Fellowship). October 18th, 2004. Retrieved: 30 April 2014.