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11 June

17 commemorations of 11 June in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 24 June of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Barnabas the Apostle

Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Barnabas of Vasa, near Limassol in Cyprus, WonderworkerὉ Ὅσιος Βαρνάβας ὁ ἐν Βάσῃ Κοιλανίου τῆς Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · impaphou.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • Venerable Barnabas of Vetluga, ascetic of Vetluga (1445)Ὁ Ὅσιος Βαρνάβας τῆς Βετλούγκαsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Martyr Zafeirios of Halkidiki (c. 1821)johnsanidopoulos.com · saint.gr
  • 222 Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising, at Beijing and other places (1900)
    • Hieromartyr Metrophanes, Chi Sung (Chang Tzi-tzung), Priest
    • his wife Presvytera Tatiana
    • his sons John and Isaiah, and Isaiah’s fiancée Maria
    • the church-school teachers Paul Wang and Ia Wen
    • and another 215 martyrs
    Ὁ Ἅγιος Μητροφάνης ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ μαρτυρήσαντεςsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • New Hiero-confessor Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, Surgeon, Unmercenary Wonderworker (1961)Ὁ Ἅγιος Λουκᾶς Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Κριμαίαςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr

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.

  • Saints Felix and Fortunatus, two brothers, born in Vicenza in Italy, who suffered under Diocletian in Aquileia (296)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Blitharius (Blier), born in Scotland, he went to France and settled in Seganne in Champagne (7th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Βλιθάριος τῆς Σεζάννηςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Herebald (Herband), born in Britain, he lived as a hermit in Brittany where a church is dedicated to him (8th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἐραβάλδιος ὁ Ἐρημίτης ἐκ Βρετανίαςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Tochumra, a holy virgin venerated in Kilmore in Ireland; she was called on by women in labourorthodoxengland.org.uk

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • Appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt. Athos, and the revelation of the hymn "It Is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin) (982)Σύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου τοῦ «Ἄξιόν Ἐστιν» ἐν Ἁγίῳ Ὄρειsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "It Is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin) (10th century)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Translation of the relics (1572) of St. Ephraim of Novotorzhk, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery, Novotorzhok (1053)Μετακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Ἐφραὶμ ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Translation of the relics (c. 1592) of Saint Arcadius of Vyazma and Novotorzhk (1077)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of the recluse Melania of Eletz and Zadonsk (1836)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Ivan Vasilievich Kireyevsky, philosopher and Patristic translator (1856)pravoslavie.ru

The list is June 11 (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.

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