Holy Martyrs Eustochius the priest, his nephew Gaius, and the children Probus, Lollius and Urban, who suffered at Ancyra.
Saint Eustochius was a pagan priest who, witnessing the courage of the Christian martyrs, was converted and later ordained priest at Antioch. He brought his nephew Gaius and the children Probus, Lollius and Urban to the faith, and all were arrested at Ancyra in Galatia and put to death under Maximian.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Eustochius, Gaius, Probus, Lollius and Urban of Ancyra 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
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
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.
Etheldreda of Ely
Holy Woman, Εθελδρέδα
Venerable Etheldreda (Audrey), queen and abbess of Ely in England.
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