Holy Virgin Martyrs Aesia and Susanna of Caesarea in Palestine.
Saints Aesia and Susanna were virgins of Caesarea in Palestine who, tradition relates, were disciples of the hieromartyr Pamphilus. They confessed Christ during the persecution and were put to death, and the synaxaria honour them together on this day.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Aesia and Susanna, Martyrs is commemorated on June 7. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on June 20 of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Sousanna, Susanna, Susan, Souzana, Suzanna
Also commemorated on June 7
Potamiaena of Alexandria and Basilides
Holy Woman, Ποταμιαίνη
Holy Virgin Martyr Potamiaena of Alexandria, and the soldier Basilides who was converted by her.
Panagis Basias of Kefalonia
Venerable, Παναγής Μπασιάς
Venerable Panagis (Paisios) Basias of Lixouri, Kefalonia, priest and fool for Christ of the nineteenth century.
Name days: Panagis
Zenais the Wonderworker
Holy Woman, Ζηναΐς
Holy Zenais of Caesarea in Palestine, a wonderworker of the early Church.
Anastasios Gordios
Venerable, Αναστάσιος ο Γόρδιος
Venerable Anastasios Gordios of Vraniana in Agrapha, priest-monk and teacher of the enslaved Greek nation.
Lykarion the Martyr
Martyr, Λυκαρίων
Holy Martyr Lykarion of Egypt, who suffered for Christ in his youth.
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