June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
June 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 25
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 7 by Old Calendarists
Saints
- Birth of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
- Martyrs Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus, Longinus, and others in Georgia (4th century)
- Saint Anthony of Dymsk in Novgorod, abbot (1224)
- Saint Nicetas of Remesian, bishop (420)
- Saint John of Yaransk in Solovki, monk
- Righteous youths John and James of Meniugi in Novogorod
- Saint Michael of Tver, Great Prince
- Martyr Panagiotes of Caesarea in Cappadocia (1765)
- Synaxis of the Righteous Zechariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Baptist
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