Zapheirios the New Martyr

New Martyr Zapheirios, who confessed Christ during the Turkish period.

Saint Zapheirios is commemorated in the Greek synaxaria as a New Martyr who gave his life for Christ during the years of Ottoman rule. Few details of his life have been preserved, but Greeks named Zafeiris and Zafeiria keep their name day on this feast.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Zapheirios the New Martyr is commemorated on June 11. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on June 24 of the civil calendar.

Who celebrates a name day

People with these names keep their name day on this feast:

Zafeiris, Zafeirios, Zafiris, Zafeiria, Zafeiro, Zafiro, Zafira

Also commemorated on June 11

• Bartholomew and Barnabas the Apostles

  Apostle, Βαρθολομαίος και Βαρνάβας

  Holy Apostles Bartholomew of the Twelve and Barnabas of the Seventy, founder of the Church of Cyprus.

  Name days: Vartholomaios, Bartholomew, Bartholomaios, Bartholomeos, Varnavas, Barnabas, Barnaby, Varnava

• Luke of Simferopol, the Surgeon

  Hierarch, Λουκάς ο Ιατρός

  Saint Luke, Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, surgeon, confessor and wonderworker of the twentieth century.

• Metrophanes of China and the Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion

  Hierarch, Μητροφάνης Τσι-Σουνγκ

  Hieromartyr Metrophanes Chi-Sung, first Chinese Orthodox priest, with his wife Tatiana and the 222 martyrs of Peking in 1900.

• Barnabas of Vasa, the Wonderworker

  Venerable, Βαρνάβας ο εν Λεμεσώ

  Venerable Barnabas the wonderworker of Vasa near Limassol, an ascetic of Cyprus.