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July 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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July 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 21

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on August 2 by Old Calendar.

For July 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 7.

Holy and glorious Prophet Elijah the Thesbite, whose fiery ascent as it were into the Heavens we celebrate (9th century BC)

Saint Flavianus II of Antioch, Patriarch and Confessor (518)

Saint Elias I of Jerusalem, Patriarch and Confessor (518)

Saint Rheticus (Rheticius, Rhetice), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Autun in France (334)

Saint Aurelius of Carthage, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa (429)

Saint Severa of St Gemma, Abbess of St Gemma (later Sainte-Sevère) in Villeneuve near Bourges, the sister of St Modoald, Bishop of Trier (c. 680)

Saint Wulmar of Boulogne (Ulmar, Ulmer, Vilmarus, Volmar), founder of the monastery of Samer near Boulogne, later called Saint-Vulmaire (689)

Saint Severa of Oehren, Abbess of Oehren near Trier in Germany (c. 750)

Saint Ansegisus, a monk at Fontenelle Abbey in France at the age of eighteen, he later restored several monasteries (c. 833)

Hieromartyr Paul the Deacon of Córdoba (851)

Saint Ethelwida (Ealhswith, Elswith), widow of King Alfred the Great (902)

Martyr Salome of Jerusalem and Kartli, who suffered under the Persians (13th century)

Saint Abramius of Galich, near Chukhloma Lake, disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1375)

Saint Elias (Chavchavadze) the Righteous of Georgia (1907)

New Hieromartyr Constantine Slovtsov, Priests (1918)

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