February 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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February 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 17
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 1 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For February 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 3.Saints
- Hieromartyrs Pamphilus of Caesarea, Priest, and 11 companions, at Caesarea in Palaestina :
- Saint Maruthas of Martyropolis, Bishop of Sophene and Martyropolis, and the Martyrs of Persia, whose relics rest in Martyropolis.
- Saint Flavian of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch
- Saint Flavian the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople
- Venerable Flavian the Hermit, monastic and Wonderworker.
- Saint Mary the New, of Byzia in Thrace
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Onesimus, of the Seventy Apostles
- Saint Honestus, a disciple of Saturninus of Toulouse, who preached the Gospel in Spain
- Saint Faustinus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia and Confessor
- Hieromartyr Tanco of Verden, Bishop of Verden
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- New Monk-martyr Romanus of Karpenision and Kapsokalyvia, Mount Athos, at Constantinople
- Saint Basil Gryaznov of Pavlovo-Posadsky
- Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, to the Altai
- Saint Nicholas of Japan, Archbishop and Equal-to-the-Apostles
- New Hieromartyr Peter Lagov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Elias Chetverukhin, Priest, of Moscow
- New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of Virgin-martyr Juliana of Nicomedia
- Synaxis of the 'Cypriot' Icon of the Theotokos.
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