February 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
February 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 18
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 2 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For February 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 4.
Saints
- Saint Mariamne, Equal to the Apostles, sister of Apostle Philip
- Saint Auxibius of Soli, Bishop of Soli in Cyprus
- Martyrs Donatus, Romulus, Secundian, and 86 Companions, at Concordia, near Venice Great-martyr Theodore the Tyro
- Martyr Theodoulos, at Caesarea Palestina
- Saint Mesrop Mashtots of Armenia Holy Emperor Marcian and St. Pulcheria, his wife
- Venerable Martyr Theocteristus, Abbot of Pelekete Monastery near Prusa
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Faustinus and Companions, a group of forty-five martyrs honoured in Rome.
- Saint Lommán of Trim, a nephew of St Patrick and the first Bishop of Trim in Meath in Ireland
- Saint Habet-Deus, Bishop of Luna in Tuscany in Italy, probably martyred by the Arian Vandals
- Saint Fortchern, Bishop of Trim in Ireland, he later lived as a hermit
- Saint Guevrock, Abbot of Loc-Kirec, he also helped St Paul of Léon
- Saint Fintan of Clonenagh, a disciple of St Columba, he led the life of a hermit in Clonenagh in Leix in Ireland, Confessor
- Saint Finan of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- Saint Silvinus of Auchy, enlightener of the area near Thérouanne, then a monastic in the Benedictine abbey of Auchy-les-Moines
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- St. Euxiphius I, Bishop and Wonderworker, listed in some synaxaria as one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus
- Venerable Theodore the Silent, of the Kiev Caves Monastery
- Venerable Theodosius, monastic founder at Mt. Kelifarevo, and his disciple St. Romanus, of Turnovo, Bulgaria.
- New Martyr Michael Mavroeidis of Adrianopolis Saint Hermogenes of Moscow, Patriarch and Wonderworker of Moscow and all Russia
- New Martyr Theodore of Byzantium, at Mytilene
- New Hieromartyr Theodore of Adjara, Hieromonk, at Mt. Athos
- Venerable Barnabas, Elder of Gethsemane Skete, of St. Sergius Lavra
- Saint Nicholas Planas, Priest, of Athens
- New Hieromartyr Joseph Zograph of Dionysiou, Hieromonk, at Mt. Athos
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Paul Kosminkov, Archpriest, of Lystsevo, Moscow
- New Hieromartyr Michael Nikologorsky, Priest
- Martyr Anna Chetverikov
Other commemorations
- Uncovering of the relics of Martyr Menas the Most Eloquent, of Alexandria
- Weeping "Tikhvin" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, at the Kozak Skete of St. Elias on Mt. Athos.
- Repose of Elder Agapitus of the Kiev Caves
- Repose of Schemamonk John of Kolitsou Skete, Mt. Athos