17 July
23 commemorations of 17 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 30 July of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Marina the Great Martyr
Saints
- Great martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (4th century)Ἡ Ἁγία Μαρίνα ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Euphrasius of Ionopolis, BishopὉ Ἅγιος Εὐφράσιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωνοπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Apostles of the Slavs: Cyril and Methodius, Clement of Ohrid, Sava, Angelar, Gorazd and Nahum of OchridΟἱ Ὅσιοι Κύριλλος, Μεθόδιος, Κλήμης, Σάββας, Ἀγγελάριος, Γορασδῶν καὶ Ναούμsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Timothy, Fool-for-Christ, of Svyatogorsk, near Pskov (1563)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Irenarchus, Abbot of Solovetsky Monastery (1628)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Leonid, founder of Ust-Neduma Monastery in Vologda, Abbot (1654)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- Royal Martyrs of Russia: Martyrdom of the Romanovs (17 July 1918)ocafs.oca.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.
- The Holy Martyrs of Scillium beheaded in Carthage (180)
- Martyrs Speratus and Veronica, Nartzalus, Cittinus, Veturius, Felix, Aquilinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestia, Donata, and Secunda
- Saint Marcellina, born in Rome, she was the elder sister of St Ambrose of Milan and St Satyrus (398)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Alexios the Man of God, in Rome (411)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Generosus of Tivoli, venerated in Tivoli in Italy, where his relics are enshrined in the CathedralRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cynllo, a British saint to whom several churches are dedicated in Wales (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Theodosius of Auxerre, Bishop of Auxerre in France c 507-516, who assisted in 511 at the First Council of OrléansRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ennodius (Magnus Felix Ennodius), a Gallo-Roman who became Bishop of Pavia in Italy, Confessor (521)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Frédégand (Frégô), born in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Foillan, and became a monk and Abbot of Kerkelodor Abbey near Antwerp in Belgium (c. 740)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Turninus, a priest from Ireland who worked with St Foillan in Holland, and also near Antwerp in Belgium (8th century) Almost certainly the same as...orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Child-martyr Prince Kenelm of Wales, son of King Coenwulf of Mercia in England, murdered in the forest of Clent and buried in Winchcombe (c. 821)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Andrew Zorard, born in Poland, he lived as a hermit on Mount Zobar in Hungary (c. 1010)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 of St. Lazarus the Wonderworker, of Mt. Galesion, near Ephesus (1054)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Icon of the Mother of God of Sviatogorsk (1569)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org
- Slaying of Bishop John (Bulin) of Pechersk Pskov Caves (1941)pravoslavie.ru
- Glorification (1996) and translation of the relics (2000) of St. Gabriel (Zyryanov) of Seven Lakes Monastery in Kazan, and of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery in Pskov (1915)pravoslavie.ru
- Second finding of the relics (1998) of St. Alexander of Svir (1533)pravoslavie.ru
The list is July 17 (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.