Etheldreda of Ely

Venerable Etheldreda (Audrey), queen and abbess of Ely in England.

Saint Etheldreda was a princess of East Anglia who, though twice married, preserved her virginity and finally received the monastic habit. She founded the monastery of Ely and served as its abbess until her repose in 679. Her relics were found incorrupt, and her shrine at Ely was one of the great pilgrimage places of England.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Etheldreda of Ely is commemorated on June 23. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on July 6 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on June 23

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  Agrippina

  Holy Woman, Αγριππίνη

  Holy Martyr Agrippina.

  Name days: Agrippina, Agrippini

• Aristocles, Demetrian and Athanasius, Martyrs of Cyprus

  Martyr, Αριστοκλής, Δημητριανός και Αθανάσιος

  Holy Martyrs Aristocles the priest, Demetrian the deacon and Athanasius the reader, beheaded at Salamis in Cyprus.

  Name days: Aristoklis, Aristocles, Aristokles

• Eustochius, Gaius, Probus, Lollius and Urban of Ancyra

  Martyr, Ευστόχιος και οι συν αυτώ

  Holy Martyrs Eustochius the priest, his nephew Gaius, and the children Probus, Lollius and Urban, who suffered at Ancyra.

• Hieromartyrs of Crete, Gerasimos of Crete and Companions

  Hierarch, Γεράσιμος Κρήτης και οι συν αυτώ

  Holy Hieromartyrs Gerasimos, Metropolitan of Crete, and the bishops Neophytos, Joachim, Hierotheos, Zacharias, Kallinikos and Melchisedek, with the clergy and laity slain in 1821 and 1822.

• Barbarus of Pentapolis

  Venerable, Βάρβαρος ο Πενταπολίτης

  Venerable Barbarus the former brigand, ascetic and wonderworker of Pentapolis.