June 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Martyrs Plutarch, Serenus, Heraclides, Heron, Iraida, Potamiœna and her mother Marcella, at Alexandria, under Septimius Severus
• Hieromartyr Donagus, Bishop of Libya, by fire.
• Martyr Macedonius.
• The holy Two Children, who were crucified.
• The holy Three Martyrs of Galatia, by the sword.
• The holy 70 Martyrs of Scythopolis, by the sword.
• Venerable Magnus, who reposed while praying to the Lord.
• Venerable Moses the Anchorite.
• Saint Vulkian, monk.
• Saint Sennuphius the Standard-bearer, of Egypt
• Saint Paul the Physician, of Corinth
• Saint Sergius the Magistrate, of Paphlagonia, founder of the Nikitiatus Monastery in Nicomedia

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, a Greek cleric noted for expanding Christian communities in France, combatting heresy and defining Orthodoxy
• Martyr Pappias, possibly in Sicily, under Diocletian, by beheading
• Saint Crummin of Lecua, a disciple of St Patrick at Leccuine in Westmeath in Ireland
• Saint Austell of Cornwall
• Saint Benignus, Bishop of Utrecht in Holland
• Saint Theodichildis, a nun at Faremoutiers Abbey in France, she became the first Abbess of Jouarre
• Saint Argymirus of Córdoba, martyr
• Saint Egilo, a monk and later Abbot of Prüm near Trier in Germany
• Saint Heimerad, a priest at Baden in Germany who after many pilgrimages lived as a monk at Hersfeld Abbey and then as a hermit at Hasungen in Westphalia

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Xenophon of Robeika, founder of Robeika Monastery, Novgorod
• Saints Sergius and Herman, founders and abbots of Valaam Monastery, Wonderworkers
• Saint Heliodorus, Schema-Archimandrite of Glinsk Hermitage

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Basil Sitnikov, Deacon
• Virgin-martyr Sebastiana Ageyev-Zueva
• New Hieromartyr Gregory Samarin, Deacon

  Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of the Holy Wonderworking Unmercenaries and Martyrs Cyrus and John
• Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Three Hands" of Hilandar, Mt. Athos
• Repose of Archimandrite Sophrony of Essex
• Repose of Archimandrite Methodius of Jerusalem

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