June 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For June 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 19.

Saints

• Martyr Justin the Philosopher (Justin Martyr) at Rome (166)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus), and Justus with Justin Martyr (166)^[3][4]
• Martyr Neon, by beheading.^[5]
• Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace.^[6]
• Hieromartyr Phyrrhus the Virgin.^[7]
• Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222)^{[8][note 2]}
• Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250)^{[10][note 3]}
• The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251)^[11]
• Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299)^{[12][note 4]}
• Martyr Gerasimos.^{[13][note 5]}
• St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912)^[14]

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Martyrs Felinus and Gratinianus (250)^{[15][16][note 6][note 7]}
• Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others, at Autun (272)^{[16][17][note 8][note 9]}
• Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287)^{[16][18][note 10]}
• Martyr Juventius, in Rome.^[9][16]
• Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304)^[9][16][19]
• Martyr Secundus, At Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304)^{[16][20][note 11]}
• Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize Aquitaine, France.^[16]
• Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400)^{[16][21][note 12]}
• Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430)^{[9][16][22][note 13]}
• Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornwall), an early bishop of Cornish origin who preached in Cornwall and in Brittany (6th century)^[16][23]
• Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch Canonicorum (c. 831).^{[16][note 14]}
• Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia in England (849)^{[16][25][note 15]}
• Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044)^[16]
• Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop of Oca-Valpuesta (c. 1044)^[16]

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• Saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, Unmercenary physician of the Kiev Near Caves (1095)^[27][28]
• Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437)^[29][30]
• Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696)^[31]
• Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia: David, Gabriel, and Paul of the St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700)^[32][33]
• Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979)^{[34][35][36][note 16]}

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagalyuk), Bishop of Kharkov (1938)^{[37][note 17]}
• New Hieromartyr Basil, priest, Virgin-martyr Vera Samsonov (1940).^[36][38]

Other Commemorations

• Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the plague through the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (c. 1743)^{[39][note 18]}
• Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mt. Athos (1975).^[34]
• Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908)^[38]

Icon Gallery

See also

• Pashons 24 (Coptic Orthodox liturgics) (June 1)

Notes

References

Sources

• June 1/14. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• June 14 / June 1. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• June 1. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• June 1. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• 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. pp. 159–160.
• 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. 249–250.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 1 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 1 Ιουνίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 14 июня (1 июня). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (Russian) 1 июня (ст.ст.) 14 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

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