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15 July

23 commemorations of 15 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 28 July of the civil calendar.

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Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Peter Troitsky, Deacon (1938)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · spzh.news

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 Eutropius, Zosima and Bonosa, martyrs in Porto near Rome under Aurelian (c. 273)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Secundinus, Agrippinus, Maximus, Fortunatus and Martialis, martyrs in Pannonia (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Catulinus (Cartholinus), Januarius, Florentius, Julia and Justa, martyrs in Carthage in North Africaorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Apronia (Evronie), the sister of Bishop Aprus of Toul, from whom she received the veil (sixth century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Felix of Pavia, a martyr in Pavia in Italyorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Aeternus (Eternus), ninth Bishop of Evreux in France (c. 660)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Donald of Ogilvy (c. 716) and his nine virgin daughters, nuns of Abernathy, Scotlandholytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • Saint Benedict of Angers, Bishop of Angers in the west of France (c. 820)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Adalard of Corbie, called the younger, he was a monk at Corbie in France (c. 824)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Haruch, Bishop near Werden in Germany (c. 830)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Athanasius of Naples, Bishop of Naples in Italy (872)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Edith of Polesworth, Abbess of Polesworth in England and a sister of a King of England (c. 925)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · 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.

  • Translation of the relics (971) of St. Swithun, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Winchester (863)Ὁ Ἅγιος Swithn (Ἀγγλοσάξωνας)synaxarion.gr · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Finding of the head of Saint Matrona of Chios (1462)Εὕρεσις Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίας Ματρώνας τῆς Χιοπολίτιδαςsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • Synaxis of All Saints of Kievpravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodox.org.ua

The list is July 15 (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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