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May 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 2

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on June 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For June 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 19.

Saints

• Martyr Justin the Philosopher (Justin Martyr) at Rome (166)^[1][2]
• Martyrs Chariton, Charita, Euelpistus, Hierax, Peonus, Valerian (Liberianus), and Justus with Justin Martyr (166)^[3][4]
• Martyr Neon, by beheading.^[5]
• Saint Pyrrus, Bishop, reposed in peace.^{[6][note 2]}
• Martyr Thespesius of Cappadocia (222)^{[7][note 3]}
• Martyrs Ischyrion, a military officer, and five other soldiers, in Egypt (250)^{[9][note 4]}
• The holy Ten thousand Martyrs, in Antiochia (249-251)^[10]
• Martyr Firmus, under the eparch Magus (299)^{[11][note 5]}
• Martyr Gerasimos.^{[12][note 6]}
• St. Metrius the Farmer of Myra in Lycia (912)^[13]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Felinus and Gratinianus (250)^{[14][15][16][note 7][note 8]}
• Hieromartyrs Reverianus (Bishop) and Paul (priest), with ten others, at Autun (272)^{[15][17][note 9][note 10]}
• Martyr Crescentian, in Saldo near Città di Castello in Italy (287)^{[15][18][note 11]}
• Martyr Juventius, in Rome.^[8][15]
• Martyr Proclus, at Bologna (304)^[8][15][19]
• Martyr Secundus, At Amelia in Umbria, when thrown into the Tiber (304)^{[15][20][note 12]}
• Martyr Clarus of Acquitaine, a Bishop believed to have been sent to evangelize Aquitaine, France.^[15]
• Saint Fortunatus of Spoleto the Wonderworker (400)^{[15][21][note 13]}
• Saint Caprasius of Lérins, Abbot (430)^{[8][15][22][note 14]}
• Saint Ronan of Locronan (Ronan of Cornouaille (Cornwall)), an early bishop who preached in Cornouaille in Brittany (6th century)^{[15][23][note 15]}
• Saint Wite, a female Dorset saint martyred by the Danes, buried at Whitchurch Canonicorum (c. 831).^{[15][note 16]}
• Saint Wigstan (Wystan, Wistan, Winston), of the royal house of Mercia in England (849)^{[15][26][27][note 17]}
• Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, Bishop of Ossero in Istria (1044)^[15]
• Saint Atto, a monk at Oña in Spain with St. Enneco, who later became Bishop of Oca-Valpuesta (c. 1044)^[15]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Agapetus of the Kiev Caves, Unmercenary physician of the Kiev Near Caves (1095)^[29][30]
• Dionysius of Glushetsk in Vologda, Abbot, Wonderworker (1437)^[31][32]
• Martyr Shio the New (Shio of Akhakalakhi) in Georgia (1696)^[33]
• Synaxis of the Holy Martyrs of Georgia: David, Gabriel, and Paul of the St. David Gareji Monastery (1696-1700)^[34][35]
• Saint Justin (Popovic), Archimandrite of Ćelije Monastery in Serbia (1979)^{[36][37][38][note 18]}

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the deliverance of the island of Lefkada from the plague through the intercession of Saint Bessarion (†1540), Archbishop of Larissa (c. 1743)^{[41][note 20]}
• Repose of Elder Philaret of Kapsala, Mount Athos (1975).^[36]
• Glorification (1990) of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908)^[40]

Icon gallery

• 
  St. Justin Martyr.
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  Crucifixion and Apotheosis of the Ten Thousand Martyrs. By Vittore Carpaccio, 1515.
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  Fresco of St. Fortunatus of Spoleto.
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  Standard of St. Ronan of Locronan.
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  Scenes from the life of St Ronan of Locronan on the polychrome pulpit at the Locronan parish church.
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  St. Wite's Cross (the flag of Dorset).
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  St. Agapetus of the Kiev Caves.
• 
  St. Justin Popović.
• 
  New Hieromartyr Onuphrius (Gagalyuk), Bishop of Kharkov.

Notes

References

Sources

• June 1/14. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• June 14 / June 1. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• June 1. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 40.
• The First Day of the Month of June. Orthodoxy in China.
• June 1. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 159–160.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 249–250.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 1 ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 1 Ιουνίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• (in Greek) 01/06/2017. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 14 июня (1 июня). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 1 июня (ст.ст.) 14 июня 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
• (in Russian) 1 июня по старому стилю / 14 июня по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год.