June 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Apollonias, nephew of the Apostle Barnabas
• Martyr Elappas.
• Five Martyrs of Nicomedia, by the sword.
• Forty Martyrs of Rome, by fire.
• Hieromartyr Tigrius, Priest, and Martyr Eutropius, Reader, of Constantinople
• Saint Mnemonios, Bishop of Amathus in Cyprus
• Saint Tikhon of Amathus in Cyprus, Bishop and Wonderworker

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Ferreolus, Priest, and Ferrutio, Deacon, brothers from Asia Minor
• Saint Similien of Nantes, third Bishop of Nantes in France, confessor; St Gregory of Tours testified to his holiness.
• Saints Actinea and Graecina, both martyrs, the former was beheaded in Volterra in Italy under Diocletian
• Saints Aureus of Mainz, Justina and Companions, during an invasion of the Huns
• Saint Simplicius of Bourges, Bishop of Bourges in France, he defended the Church against the Arian Visigoths
• Saint Cettin, a disciple of St Patrick of Ireland and consecrated bishop by him
• Saint Berthaldus, a hermit in the Ardennes in France, who was ordained priest by St Remigius of Reims
• Saint Aurelianus of Arles, Bishop of Arles in France
• Venerable Colman McRoi, a deacon who was a disciple of St Columba, he founded a monastery at Reachrain, now Lambay Island, near Dublin in Ireland
• Saint Curig, Bishop of Llanbadarn in Wales, where several churches are dedicated to him
• Saints Felix and Maurus, father and son who lived as hermits at what is now called San Felice near Narni in central Italy
• Venerable Ismael, a disciple of St Teilo in Wales, he was consecrated Bishop of Menevia by him

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Sabbas of Moscow, Monk of Andronikov Monastery, Moscow
• Venerable Tikhon of Kaluga, or Medyn, founder of the St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery
• Saint Tikhon of Lukhov, Kostroma
• Martyr Kaikhosro of Georgia, monk, of Jerusalem, under Abbas I of Persia
• Saint Tikhon of Krestogorsk, founder of Krestogorsk Monastery, Vologda
• Venerable Moses of Optina, founder and archimandrite of the Skete of St. John the Baptist

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Hermogenes, Bishop of Tobolsk, and those with him :

  Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Theodore the Sykeote, Bishop of Anastasiopolis in Galatia
• Repose of Elder Gerasimus of St. Tikhon of Kaluga Monastery
• Repose of Righteous Maria, disciple of St. Paul of Taganrog.
• Translation of the relics of St. Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov

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