June 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 18

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 30 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ismael of Persia (362)
• Hieromartyr Philoneides, Bishop of Kurion in Cyprus
• Saints Joseph and Pior, disciples of Saint Anthony the Great (6th century)
• Saint Ananias of Novgorod the Iconographer (1581)
• The Alfanov Brothers of Novgorod: Sts Nikita, Cyril, Nicephorus, Clement, Isaac (14th century)
• Russian New Martyr Ismael Rozhdestvensky, priest
• Martyrs Isaurus, Basil, Innocent, Felix, Peregrinus, and Hermes at Athens

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, Calendar
• Orthodox Church in America, Feasts and Saints