July 20 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)

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''.

Saints

* ''Holy and glorious Prophet Elijah the Thesbite, whose fiery ascent as it were into the Heavens we celebrate'' (9th century BC)July 20/August 2
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής.
20 Ιουλίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

'' The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
* Saint Flavianus II of Antioch, Patriarch and Confessor (518)August 2 / July 20
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).Hieromonk Makarios of Simonos Petra (Ed.). ''THE SYNAXARION: The Lives of the Saints of the Orthodox Church: VOLUME SIX - July, August.'' Transl. from the French by Mother Maria (Rule) and Mother Joanna (Burton). Holy Convent of the Annunciation of Our Lady, Ormylia (Chalkidike), 2008. pp. 209-210.
* Saint Elias I of Jerusalem, Patriarch and Confessor (518)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Rheticus (''Rheticius, Rhetice''), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Autun in France (334)July 20
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* 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)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* 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 martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Constantine Slovtsov, Priests (1918)2 августа (20 июля)
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
* New Martyrs Lydia, with soldiers Alexei and Cyril, near Ufa (1928)
* New Hieromartyrs at Voronezh (1930):
:* Archimandrite Tikhon (Krechkov);
:* Hieromonks George (Pozharov) and Cosmas (Vyaznikov);
:* Priests John Steblin-Kamensky, Sergius Gortinsky, Theodore Yakovlev, Alexander Arkhangelsky, and George Nikitin;
:* Martyrs Euthymius Grebenshchikov and Peter Vyaznikov.
* New Hieromartyr Alexis Znamensky, Priest (1938)
* New Hieromartyr Theodore Abrosimov (1941)
* ''New Martyrs of Paris'':
:* Archpriest Alexis Medvedkov, of Ugine, France (1934);
:* Elias Fondaminsky (1942);
:* Priest Demetrius Klepinine (1944);
:* George Skobtsov (1944); and
:* Nun Maria (Skobtsova) (1945)

Other commemorations

* Icon of the Mother of God "Chukhloma" from Galich (''Galich-Chukhlomsk - "Tenderness"'') (1350) ''(see also: May 28, August 15)''
* Icon of the Mother of God "Orshansk" (1631) ''(see also: September 5)''
* Icon of the Mother of God "Abalatsk" ("Sign") (1637) ''(see also: November 27)''
* Uncovering of the relics (1649) of Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest, Hegumen of the Monastery of St Simeon Stylites in Brest (1648)
Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Athanasius, Abbot of Brest-Litovsk
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.
* Repose of Priest Valentine Amphiteatrov of Moscow (1908)
* Repose of Schema-nun Sarah of Borodino (1908)

Icon gallery

File:Elijah Icon Sinai c1200.jpg, Prophet Elijah the Thesbite.
File:Mural - Elisha.jpg, Elijah's fiery ascent into heaven (St. John the Baptist Church at the Jordan River).
File:Abraham of Galich.jpg, St. Abramius of Galich.
File:Ilia Chavchavadze by Alexander Roinashvili.png, St. Elias (Chavchavadze).
File:Елизавета Скобцова.jpg, St. Maria (Skobtsova) of Paris.
File:Ioann steblin kamenskii 2010 001.jpg, New Hieromartyr John Steblin-Kamensky, priest.
File:Galichskaya icona.jpg, Galich-Chukhlomsk Icon of the Mother of God.
File:Aphanasiy of Brest.jpg, Hieromartyr Athanasius of Brest.

Notes

References

Sources

July 20/August 2
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

August 2 / July 20
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

July 20
OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
*

'' The Year of Our Salvation - Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts.
* The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 53.
*

'' Orthodoxy in China.


Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
*
The Roman Martyrology
'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 214–215.
* Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 348–349.

; Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes:
20 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
* Συναξαριστής.
20 Ιουλίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
*
20/07/
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

; Russian Sources
*

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
*
20 июля по старому стилю / 2 августа по новому стилю
СПЖ "Союз православных журналистов". .
*
20 июля (ст.ст.) 2 августа (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

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