February 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feb. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 23

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 7 (March 6) by Old Calendarists.

Saints

• Martyrs Maurice, his son Photinus, Theodore, Philip, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea in Syria (305)
• Saint Papius of Hierapolis
• Venerable Thalassius, Limnaeus, and Barades, hermits of Syria (5th century)
• Venerable Athanasius the Confessor of Constantinople (821)
• Saint Telesphorus, Pope of Rome (137)
• Saint Peter the Stylite of Mount Athos
• Russian new martyr Theoktista Michailovna, Fool-for-Christ of Voronezh (1936)
• Russian new martyr Michael Lisicin, priest (1918)
• Martyrs Anthusa and her 12 servants
• Saint Blaise, bishop

Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics of some martyrs at the gate of Eugenius in Constantinople (395-423)
• Repose of Gregory "Golden Grits" (1855)
• Repose of Schemanun Avramia of Kashin (1855)