February 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• The Presentation of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ in the Temple, 40 days after His sacred birth.

  Saints

• Martyr Agathadorus of Tyana in Cappadocia.

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Apronian, a Roman executioner who converted to Orthodoxy when taking the martyr St Sisinnius before the tribunal and was then himself martyred
• Saint Flosculus, Bishop of Orleans in France
• Saint Laurence of Canterbury, the second Archbishop of Canterbury
• Saint Adalbert I of Ostrevent, founder of Marchiennes Abbey
• Saint Feock, a saint recalled by a church dedication in Cornwall.
• Saint Adeloga, a daughter of Charles Martel, first Abbess of Kitzingen in Germany
• Martyrs of Ebsdorf, martyred at the Battle of Luneberg Heath near Ebsdorf, Saxony
• Saint Columbanus, born in Ireland, he lived as a hermit near the church of Saint-Bavo in Ghent in Belgium

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• New Martyr Jordan of Trebizond, at Constantinople
• New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Hierodeacon, of Constantinople
• Venerable
• Venerable Ekvtime the Confessor, of Georgia

  Other commemorations

• Repose of Schema-monk Seraphim of Valaam Monastery

  Icons

• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos the Hypapante of Kalamata, patron saint of Kalamata.
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Apekois", at the Church of the Hypapante on Kalymnos.
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Dreadful Bee", at Leivadi on Kythira.
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos of Goumenissa.
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "'Flevariotissa' or 'Libya'", at Mesaria on the island of Astypalaia.
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Flevariotissa", at Ampelakia on Salamis Island.
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Theotokos "Chrysaliniotissa", in Leukosia, Cyprus.

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