July 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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July 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - July 17

All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on July 29 by Old Calendar.

For July 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 3.

Saints

• Saint Kyriakos the Executioner (Cyriacus), who had beheaded the martyr Antiochus of Sulcis, then converted to Christ and was beheaded (c. 110) <small>(see also: December 13)</small>
• Martyr Faustus, by crucifixion, under Decius (c. 249-251)
• Martyrs Paul and his two sisters Chionia (Thea) and Alevtina (Valentina) at Caesarea Palaestina (308) <small>(see also: July 18)</small>
• Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis, and his ten disciples (c. 311)