February 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Feb. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 24
[edit] Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 8 (March 7) by Old Calendarists
[edit] Saints
- Hieromartyr Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop (167)
- Saints John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, another Moses, and Damian, ascetics of the Syrian desert (5th century)
- Saint Alexander, founder of the order of the Unsleeping Ones (431)
- Saint Gorgonia, sister of Saint Gregory the Theologian (372)
- Saint Damian of Esphigmenou Skete on Mount Athos (14th century)
- Saint Moses of White Lake, monk (15th century)
- Saint Polycarp of Briansk, monk (1499)
- Martyr Damian, monk of Mount Athos, who suffered at Larissa (1658)
- Martyr Clement
- Martyr Thea
