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24 July

35 commemorations of 24 July in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 6 August of the civil calendar.

In the map: Ss. Boris and Gleb, the Passion-bearers

Saints

  • Saint Athenagoras of Athens, Apologist (c. 190)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀθηναγόρας ὁ Ἀθηναῖος, ὁ Ἀπολογητήςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org
  • Saint Christina the Great Martyr (Christina of Tyre) (c. 300)Ἡ Ἁγία Χριστίνα ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · tyoos.org
  • Martyrs Capito and Hymenaeus, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Καπίτων ὁ Μάρτυρας Ὁ Ἅγιος Καπίτων ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Martyr Hermogenes, by having his teeth pulled out, dying of infection and bleedingὉ Ἅγιος Ἐρμογένης ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Saint Salumptinus, a Bishop of JerusalemὉ Ἅγιος Σαλομπτίνοςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
  • Holy Martyrs and Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb of Russia, in holy baptism Romanus and David (1015)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μπορίσος καὶ Γλιέβος οἱ Μάρτυρες (Ρῶσοι)synaxarion.gr · pravenc.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Hilarion of Tvali, Georgia (1041)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰλαρίων τοῦ Τβάλιsynaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Symeon the Newly-Revealed (born 1042)Ὁ Ὅσιος Συμεὼν ὁ Νεοφανήςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
  • Venerable Polycarp of the Kiev Caves, Archimandrite (1182)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Pachomius, Abbot, near Vologda (1479)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Theophilus of Zakynthos, burnt alive in Chios (1635)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόφιλος ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Bogolep, child schemamonk, of Chorny Yar (Black Ravine), near Astrakhan (1654 or 1667)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Athanasius of Kios in Bithynia, beheaded in Constantinople (1670)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας ἀπὸ τὴν Κίοsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint George (Konissky), Bishop of Mogilev (1795)holytrinityorthodox.com · spzh.news

New martyrs and confessors

  • 17 New Martyrs of Mgarsk Monastery, Poltava (1919)
    • Abbot Ambrose
    • Hieromonks Arcadius, Ioannicius, Jonah, Joseph, Nicanor, Athanasius, Theophan, Serapion, Nicostratus, and Julian
    • Monks Ioannicius, Herman, Nazarius, Parthenius, Potapius, and Dorymedon
    pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Alpheus, Deacon (1937)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Holy New Martyrs of Prebilovci in Hercegovina (1941)crkvenikalendar.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hiero-confessor Nicholas Pongelsky, Priest (1942)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hiero-confessor John Kalinin, Priest, of Olenevka (1951)pravenc.ru · 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.

  • Saints Victor, Stercatius and Antinogenes, by tradition three brothers martyred in Merida in Estremadura in Spain (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Vincent, a martyr in Rome outside the walls of the city, on the road to Tivoliorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Ursicinus of Sens, fourth Bishop of Sens in France and an opponent of Arianism (c. 380)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Dictinus, Bishop of Astorga in Spain (420)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Declán of Ardmore, Bishop of Ardmore in Ireland (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Lewina (Leofwynn), a Briton and virgin-martyr venerated in Seaford in Sussex, England (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Menefrida, patron-saint of Tredresick in Cornwall (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Nissen, abbot of Montgarth (Mountgarret) Abbey in Wexford, Ireland
  • Saint Godo (Gaon), born in Verdun, a nephew of St Wandrille, he became a monk at Fontenelle Abbey, later founding the monastery of Oye, near Sezanne-en-Brie (c. 690)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Wulfhad and Rufinus (Ruffin), princes of Mercia, baptised by St Chad, then put to death by their father (unconverted), at Stone in Staffordshire (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Christiana, by tradition born in England, she lived a holy life in Flanders and is the patron saint of Termonde in Belgium (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Sigolena of Albi (Segoulème), a nun in the convent of Troclar on the Tarn in the south of France, where she later became abbess (c. 769)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Aliprandus (Leuprandus), Abbot of St Augustine's in Pavia, Italy (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Bernulphus, Bishop of Utrecht (1054)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

Other commemorations

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

  • Repose of Blessed Monk Tikhon of Turukhan, on the Yenisei River in Siberia (1682)pravoslavie.ru · turuhansk.info
  • Uncovering of the relics (1994) of Venerable Dalmatus, Abbot and founder of the Dormition Monastery in Siberia (1697)holytrinityorthodox.com

The list is July 24 (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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