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June 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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June 11 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective June 11 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas (1st century)

Martyr Theopemptus and four others, by the sword.

Saints Felix and Fortunatus, two brothers, born in Vicenza in Italy, who suffered under Diocletian in Aquileia (296)

Saint Blitharius (Blier), born in Scotland, he went to France and settled in Seganne in Champagne (7th century)

Saint Herebald (Herband), born in Britain, he lived as a hermit in Brittany where a church is dedicated to him (8th century)

Saint Tochumra, a holy virgin venerated in Kilmore in Ireland; she was called on by women in labour.

Venerable Barnabas of Vasa, near Limassol in Cyprus, Wonderworker.

Venerable Barnabas of Vetluga, ascetic of Vetluga (1445)

New Martyr Zafeirios of Halkidiki (c. 1821)

222 Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising, at Beijing and other places (1900):

Hieromartyr Metrophanes, Chi Sung (Chang Tzi-tzung), Priest;

his sons John and Isaiah, and Isaiah’s fiancée Maria;

the church-school teachers Paul Wang and Ia Wen;

New Hiero-confessor Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, Surgeon, Unmercenary Wonderworker (1961) (see also May 29 )

Appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt. Athos, and the revelation of the hymn "It Is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin) (982)

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "It Is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin) (10th century)

Translation of the relics (1572) of St. Ephraim of Novotorzhk, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery, Novotorzhok (1053)

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