21 July
34 commemorations of 21 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 3 August of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC)orthochristian.com · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Zoticus, Bishop of Comana in Armenia (204)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Theophilus, Trophimus and another 13 martyrs with them (305)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεόφιλος, Τρόφιμος καὶ ἄλλοι 13 Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · tyoos.org
- Martyrs Justus and Matthew, and Eugene, at Rome (305)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰοῦστος καὶ Ματθαῖοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Martyrs Theodore and GeorgeΟἱ Ἅγιοι Θεόδωρος καὶ Γεώργιοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Holy 3 Martyrs of Melitene, dragged to deathΟἱ Ἅγιοι τρεῖς Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Μελιτινῇsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Hieromartyr Bargabdesian, Deacon, at Arbela in Assyria (354)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Paul, Bishop, and John, Priest, ascetics, near Edessa (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Symeon of Emesa, Fool-for-Christ (590), and his fellow ascetic St. John (c. 590)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Συμεὼν καὶ Ἰωάννηςsynaxarion.gr · pravenc.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Onuphrius the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ὀνούφριος ὁ σιωπηλὸς ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Venerable Onisim of the Caves, recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th-13th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Manuel II Palaiologos (Matthew in monasticism) (1425)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μανουὴλ αὐτοκράτωρ Κωνσταντινουπόλεωςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Venerable Raphael (1640-1645) and Parthenius (1660) of Old Agapia Monastery, Romaniapravoslavie.ru
- Saint Parthenius of Radobysdio, Arta, Bishop (1777)Ὁ Ἅγιος Παρθένιος Ἐπίσκοπος Ραδοβυσδίουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Ethno-Hieromartyr Meletios (Kyriakos), Bishop of Kitros (1821)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μελέτιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ Ἐθνομάρτυρας, Ἐπίσκοπος Κίτρους, ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Peter Golubev, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Simo Banjac and Milan Stojisavljevic, and the latter’s son Martyr Milan of Glamoc, Serbia (1941-1945)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
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.
- Saint Praxedes, the daughter of the Roman senator Pudens and sister of St Pudentiana (2nd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Julia of Troyes (c. 272)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Claudius, Justus, Jucundinus and Companions, a group of eight martyrs, who suffered with St Julia in Troyes in France under Aurelian (273)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Victor of Marseilles, and soldiers Alexander, Felician and Longinus (c. 290)Ὁ Ἅγιος Βίκτωρ ὁ Στρατιώτηςsynaxarion.gr · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Constantine, a disciple and the first successor of St Benedict at Monte Cassino in Italy (c. 560)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Arbogast, 7th-century missionary to the Frankish Empire and an early Bishop of Strasbourg (c. 678)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints John and Benignus, twin brothers and monks at Moyenmoutier in France (707)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wastrada, the mother of St Gregory of Utrecht, she became a nun at the end of her life (c. 760)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.
- Synaxis of Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia", ConstantinopleΣύναξις Ὑπεραγίας Θεοτόκου ἐν τοὶς Ἀρματίουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Synaxis of Saint Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyricum, in the Church by "Dry Hill"Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐλευθέριος πλησίον τοῦ Ξηρολόφουsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the holy martyr Acacius of Cappadocia, in HeptascalonΣύναξις Ἁγίου Ἀκακίου Μάρτυρος ἐν τῷ Ἐπτασκάλῳsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · saint.gr
- Uncovering of the relics (1649) of St. Anna of Kashin, Princess of Kashin (Euphrosyne in monasticism) (1337)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (1999) of New Hiero-confessor Roman Medved of Moscow, Archpriest (1937)mospat.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Repose of Abbess Arsenia (Sebryakova) of the Ust-Medveditsk Convent (ru) (1905)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Abbot Gerasim of the Chudov Monastery (1911)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Blessed Anthony Petrovich Shuvalov, wonderworker of Undor-Simbirsk (1942)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Abbess Euphemia of the Ravanica and St. Petka monasteries, Serbia (1958)pravoslavie.ru
The list is July 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.