February 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Feb. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 17

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 1 (February 29) by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyrs Pamphilius, presbyter, and with him Porphyrius, Valens, Paul, Seleucus, Julian, Theodulus, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Samuel, and Daniel, at Caesarea in Palestine (308,309)
• Saint Nicholas of Japan, archbishop and Equal-to-the-Apostles
• Saint Marutha of Martyropolis in Mesopotamia, and many with him (422)
• Martyr Romanus of Mount Athos (1695)
• New martyr Peter Lagov, priest (1931)
• Saint Flavian the Hermit

[edit] Other commemorations

• Repose of Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow, Apostle to the Altay (1926)