February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Feb. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 18

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 2 (March 1) by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Great martyr Theodore the Tyro (306)
• Repose of Hieromartyr Hermogenes of Moscow, Patriarch and Wonderworker of all Russia (1612)
• Saint Mariamne, sister of Philip the Apostle (1st century)
• Saint Auxibius of Soli in Cyprus, bishop
• Saint Theodosius the Bulgarian and Romanus the Bulgarian, monks (14th century)
• Saint Theodore the Silent of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
• Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mitylene (1795)

[edit] Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics of martyr Menas of Alexandria (see December 10)
• Repose of Elder Agapitus of the Kiev Caves (1887)
• Repose of Elder Barnabas of the Gethsemane Skete of Saint Sergius' Lavra (1906)