21 June
32 commemorations of 21 June in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 4 July of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Tertius of Iconium (Terence), Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Iconium (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Τερέντιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ἰκονίουorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Julian and his wife Basilissa, and with them Martyrs Celsius, his mother Marcianilla, Anastasius, the priest Anthony, seven brothers, and twenty... (283-305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Αἰγύπτιοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (c. 284-305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰουλιανὸς ἐξ Ἀναζαρβοῦ Κιλικίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Aphrodisius in CiliciaὉ Ἅγιος Ἀφροδίσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας ἐκ Κιλικίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Kyriakos and Apollinarios, of AfricaΟἱ Ἅγιοι Κυριακὸς καὶ Ἀπολλινάριος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Saints Julius of Novara, presbyter, and his brother Julian the Deacon (5th century)oca.org · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Archil II, King of Georgia (718 or 744)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀρχίλιος Β’ ὁ Μάρτυρας βασιλέας τῆς Γεωργίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Anastasia of Serbia (Anna), mother of St. Sava (1200)oca.org · saint.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theodore, right-believing prince of Starodub (1330)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Luarsab II, King of Georgia (1622)Ὁ Ἅγιος Λουαρσάβος ὁ Μάρτυρας βασιλέας τῆς Γεωργίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros, near Rhodes, at Chios (1732)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικήτας ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐκ Νισύρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John Budrin (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable New Hieroconfessor George (Lavrov), Archimandrite, of Kaluga (1932)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Jonah (Sankov), Hieromonk, of Alpatievo, Moscow (1938)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Alexis Skvortsov, Paul Uspensky and Nicholas Rozanov, Priests (1938)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Martyr Nikita Sukharev (1942)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
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 Rufinus and Martia, martyrs in one of the early persecutions in Syracuse in Sicilyorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Urciscenus, Seventh Bishop of Pavia in Italy c 183-216 (c. 216)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Martin of Tongres, seventh Bishop of Tongres in Belgium, venerated as the Apostle of the Hesbaye region in Brabant (c. 350)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Demetria, a virgin-martyr in Rome, sister of St Bibiana and daughter of Sts Flavian and Dafrosa (363)Οἱ Ἁγίες Δημητρία καὶ Βιβιανὴ οἱ Παρθενομάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Alban of Mainz, a Greek priest from Naxos, sent into exile by the Arians, he preached the Gospel in Germany around Mainz, then martyred by the Arians (c. 400)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cormac Ua Liatháin (Cormac of the Sea; Corbmac), a disciple of St Columba and Abbot of Durrow Monastery, Ireland (c. 590)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Méen (Mevenus, Mewan, Maine), a disciple of St Samson, whom he accompanied to Brittany, and founded the monastery of Saint-Méon (617)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Agofredus, brother of St Leutfrid (Leffroi), and monk at Holy Cross (La-Croix-Saint-Leuffroi), a monastery near Evreux in the north of France (738)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leutfrid (Leufroi), founder of the monastery La Croix-Saint-Ouen (later called Saint-Leufroy) near Evreux in France, where he was abbot for nearly... (738)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Engelmund of Velsen, an English-born Benedictine missionary to Frisia (c. 739)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Dominic of Comacchio, a monk at Comacchio near Venice in Italy (c. 820)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Rodulf (Rudolph, Raoul, Ralph), Abbot, and Archbishop of Bourges, Gaul (866)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Wolfrid, founder of the monastery of Hohentwiel in Germany (c. 990)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 (1996) of St. Maximus the Greek, of Russia (1556)mospat.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schemamonk John "the Muscovite," of Valaam (1933)pravoslavie.ru
- Discovery of the Icon of Panagia Eleousa in Xyniada of Domokou (1962)saint.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com
The list is June 21 (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.