24 February
15 commemorations of 24 February in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 8 March of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- First (4th century) and Second (452) Findings of the Precious Head of St. John the BaptistΕὕρεσις Τιμίας κεφαλῆς τοῦ Ἁγίου Προφήτου, προδρόμου καὶ βαπτιστοῦ Ἰωάννηorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · mospat.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Saint John the Harvester (Theristos), of Calabria (9th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεριστὴς ὁ ἐν Καλαβρίᾳsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Erasmus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (c. 1160)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἔρασμος ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint John Domovsky, Archpriest in Rostov-on-Don, a confessor of Orthodoxy who firmly denounced the Renovationists (1930)orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Saint Petroniu (Tănase) of Prodromu Skete, of the Great Lavra Monastery, Mount Athos (2011)orthochristian.com · ec-patr.org
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Martyrs Montanus, Lucias, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions, at Carthage (259)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Primitiva (Primitivus), an early martyr, probably in RomeRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Modestus, Bishop of Trier in Germany and Confessor (489)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Praetextatus (Prix), Bishop of Rouen in France and Martyr (586)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Liudhard (Letard), Chaplain and Bishop of Queen Bertha of Kent (c. 600)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Æthelberht of Kent, King of Kent (616)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐθελμπέρτος βασιλιὰς τῆς Ἀγγλίαςsynaxarion.gr · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales
- Saint Boisil of Melrose Abbey (664)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μποϊζὶλ ἐκ Σκωτίαςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Cummain Ailbe (Cumine the White), Abbot of Iona (669)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Betto, a monk at Sainte Colombe in Sens in France, who became Bishop of Auxerre in 889 (918)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Uncovering of the relics (1486) of St. Romanus, Prince of Uglich (1285)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.