February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Feb. 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 7

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 19 (new style) by Old Calendarist Local Churches and Patriarchates

[edit] Saints

• Saint Bucolus of Smyrna, bishop (100)
• Saint Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople (891)
• Martyr Julian of Emesa (312)
• Martyrs Fausta, Evilasius, and Maximus, at Cyzicus (311-315)
• Martyrs Dorothy, her sisters Christina and Callista, Theopilos, and Theophilus at Caesarea in Cappadocia (288-300)
• Martyrs Martha, Mary, and their brother Lycarion, in Egypt
• Saint Barsanuphius the Great, monk of Palestine (6th century)
• Saint Dorothy of Kashin, schemanun
• Martyr Faustus of Darion, in Constantinople
• Martyr Basil of Darion, in Constantinople
• Martyr Silvanus of Darion, in Constantinople
• Saint John of Thebes, monk
• Saint James the Ascetic

[edit] Other commemorations

• Repose of Archbishop Theophan of Poltava (1940)