1. Saints

2. Pre-Schism Western Saints

3. Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
    New Martyrs and Confessors 

4. Other commemorations

5. Icon gallery

6. Notes

7. References

8. Sources

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.{{#tag:ref|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").|group=note}}

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

Saints

• Hieromartyr Tertius of Iconium (Terence), Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Iconium (1st century)^[1][2][3][4]{{#tag:ref|"At Iconium, in Lycaonia, St. Terentius, bishop and martyr."^[5]|group=note}}
• Martyr Julian^[6] and his wife Basilissa, and with them Martyrs Celsius, his mother Marcianilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty prison guards, of Antinoe in Egypt (283-305)^[1][3][7] (see also: January 8 )
• Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (c. 284-305)^[1][3][8][9]
• Martyr Aphrodisius in Cilicia.^[1][3][10]{{#tag:ref|"THE Greek Menaea contains an absurd story of this martyr, how a lioness was let loose upon him in the arena, but instead of devouring him, she stood up on her hind-legs and preached to the people, many of whom were converted by the singular preacher."^[11]|group=note}}
• Martyrs Kyriakos and Apollinarios, of Africa.^[12]{{#tag:ref|"In Africa, the holy martyrs Cyriacus and Apollinaris."^[5]|group=note}}
• Saints Julius of Novara, presbyter, and his brother Julian the Deacon (5th century)^{[1][13][14][15]}
• Martyr Archil II, King of Georgia (718 or 744)^{[1][13][16][17]}

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Saints Rufinus and Martia, martyrs in one of the early persecutions in Syracuse in Sicily.^[18]{{#tag:ref|"At Syracuse, in Sicily, the birthday of the holy martyrs Rufinus and Martia."^[5]|group=note}}
• Saint Urciscenus, Seventh Bishop of Pavia in Italy c 183-216 (c. 216)^[18]{{#tag:ref|"At Pavia, St. Urciscenus, bishop and confessor."^[5]|group=note}}
• Saint Martin of Tongres, seventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium, venerated as the Apostle of the Hesbaye region in Brabant (c. 350)^[5][18]
• Saint Demetria, a virgin-martyr in Rome, sister of St Bibiana and daughter of Sts Flavian and Dafrosa (363)^[18][19]{{#tag:ref|"Also, at Rome, St. Demetria, virgin, who was crowned with martyrdom under Julian the Apostate."^[5]|group=note}}
• Saint Alban of Mainz, a Greek priest from Naxos, sent into exile by the Arians, he preached the Gospel in Germany around Mainz, then martyred by the Arians (c. 400)^[18][20]{{#tag:ref|"At Mayence, St. Alban, martyr, who was made worthy of the crown of life, after long labors and severe combats."^[5]|group=note}}
• Saint Cormac Ua Liatháin (Cormac of the Sea; Corbmac), a disciple of St Columba and Abbot of Durrow Monastery, Ireland (c. 590)^{[1][13][18][21]}
• Saint Méen (Mevenus, Mewan, Maine), a disciple of St Samson, whom he accompanied to Brittany, and founded the monastery of Saint-Méon (617)^{[13][18][22][23]}
• Saint Agofredus, brother of St Leutfrid (Leffroi), and monk at Holy Cross (La-Croix-Saint-Leuffroi), a monastery near Evreux in the north of France (738)^[18]
• Saint Leutfrid (Leufroi), founder of the monastery La Croix-Saint-Ouen (later called Saint-Leufroy) near Evreux in France, where he was abbot for nearly fifty years (738)^[18][24]{{#tag:ref|"In the diocese of Evreux, St. Leutfrid, abbot."^[5] He cared for poor children.|group=note}}
• Saint Engelmund of Velsen, an English-born Benedictine missionary to Frisia (c. 739)^[18][22][25]{{#tag:ref|Born in England, he became a monk at a very early age and then priest and abbot. He went to Friesland in Holland where he successfully preached with St Willibrord at Velsen, six miles north of Haarlem.|group=note}}
• Saint Dominic of Comacchio, a monk at Comacchio near Venice in Italy (c. 820)^[18]
• Saint Rodulf (Rudolph, Raoul, Ralph), Abbot, and Archbishop of Bourges, Gaul (866)^[1][18]{{#tag:ref|He became a monk at the monastery of Solignac in France and later Abbot of St Medard in Soissons. In 840 he became Bishop of Bourges, founding monasteries and doing good works.|group=note}}
• Saint Wolfrid, founder of the monastery of Hohentwiel in Germany (c. 990)^[18]

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• Venerable Anastasia of Serbia (Anna), mother of St. Sava (1200)^{[1][13][26][27]}
• Martyr Theodore, right-believing prince of Starodub (1330)^[1][13]
• Martyr Luarsab II, King of Georgia (1622)^{[1][13][28][29]}
• New Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros, near Rhodes, at Chios (1732)^{[1][3][13][30]}

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Budrin (1918)^[13][31][32]
• Venerable New Hieroconfessor George (Lavrov), Archimandrite, of Kaluga (1932)^{[1][13][31][33]}
• New Hieromartyr Jonah (Sankov), Hieromonk, of Alpatievo, Moscow (1938)^{[1][13][31][34]}
• New Hieromartyrs Alexis Skvortsov,^[35] Paul Uspensky and Nicholas Rozanov, Priests (1938)^[13][31]
• New Martyr Nikita Sukharev (1942)^[13][31]

Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics (1996) of St. Maximus the Greek, of Russia (1556)^{[1][13][31][36]}
• Repose of Schemamonk John "the Muscovite," of Valaam (1933)^[1]
• Discovery of the Icon of Panagia Eleousa in Xyniada of Domokou (1962)^[37][38]

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• June 21/July 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• July 4 / June 21. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• [https://oca.org/saints/lives/2017/06/21 June 21]. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 46.
• The Twenty-First Day of the Month of June. Orthodoxy in China.
• June 21. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• [https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft 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. 180-181.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. [https://archive.org/details/menologyofenglan00stanrich 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. 278-281.

• Great Synaxaristes: {{gr icon}} 21 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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• {{gr icon}} 21/06/2018. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

• {{ru icon}} 4 июля (21 июня). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
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