July 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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, who had beheaded the martyr Antiochus of Sulcis, then converted to Christ and was beheaded '
- Martyr Faustus, by crucifixion, under Decius
- Martyrs Paul and his two sisters Chionia and Alevtina at Caesarea Palaestina 'Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis, and his ten disciples
- Martyr Antiochus of Sebaste, Physician
- 15,000 Martyrs of Pisidia, who believed in Christ through Saint Marina, by the sword.
- Many Holy Women Martyred by the sword.
- Saint Anastasius I, Bishop of Thessaloniki, a father of the Fourth Ecumenical Council
- Saint Auxitheus, Bishop of Thessaloniki, one of the great Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Domnio, a martyr in Bergamo in Italy under Diocletian
- Saint Valentine of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany, under Diocletian Virgin-martyr Julia of Carthage, by crucifixion, at Corsica
- Martyr Helier of Jersey
- Saint Reineldis and Companions, martyred by the Huns
- Saint Generosus, Abbot of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes in Poitou in France
- Saint Ténénan, Bishop of Léon
- Saint Vitalian of Capua, Bishop of Capua in Italy
- Saint Vitalian of Osimo, Bishop of Osimo in Italy
- Martyr Sisenandus Córdoba, a Deacon in the church of St Acisclus in Córdoba in Spain, beheaded under Abderrahman II
- Saint Irmengard, Abbess of Buchau and then of Chiemsee in Germany
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint John of Vishnya and Mt. Athos, activist against Uniatism
- New Martyr John of Turnovo
- Saint Theodotus, monk of Glinsk Hermitage
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas of Tarsus and his son Habib of Damascus
- New Hieromartyrs Seraphim, Theognostus, and others of Alma-Ata
- Venerable Schema-Abbess Magdalena of New Tikhvin Convent in Siberia
- New Confessor Matrona Belyakova, Fool-for-Christ, of Anemnyasevo
- New Hieromartyrs Jacob, Archbishop of Barnaul, and Priests Peter Gavrilov and John Mozhirin, and with them Monk-martyr Theodore and Martyr John
- New Hieromartyr Ardalion, Archimandrite, of Kasli
Other commemorations
- Icon of the Mother of God of Chirsk-Pskov