February 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 24
All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For February 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 10.Saints
- Hieromartyr Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop of Smyrna
- Holy 73 Martyrs of Sirmium, under Diocletian
- Martyr Clement, by the sword.
- Martyr Thea, by the sword.
- Venerable Gorgonia the Righteous, sister of St. Gregory the Theologian.
- Saint Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones, Constantinople
- Saints John, Antioch, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses, and Damian, ascetics near Cyrrhus in the Syrian desert
- Saint John Theristes of Stylos in Calabria
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Martha, a virgin-martyr beheaded in Astorga in Spain under Decius
- Saint Polycarp, a priest in Rome noted for ministering to those in prison for their faith
- Saint Romana, a virgin born in Rome who reposed at the age of eighteen while living as an anchoress in a cave on the banks of the Tiber in Italy
- Saints Syncrotas, Antigonus, Rutilus, Libius, Senerotas and Rogatianus, martyrs at Sirmium in Pannonia
- Saint Florentius of Seville, Confessor, a saint much venerated in Seville in Spain
- Saint Felix of Brescia, twentieth Bishop of Brescia
- Saint Jurmin, an East Anglian prince, son or nephew of King Anna of East Anglia
- Saint Boswell, Abbot of Melrose Abbey in Scotland
- Saint Mildburga, Abbess of Wenlock Priory
- Saint Medrald, a monk at Saint-Evroult of Ouche in France, who later became Abbot of Vendôme
- Saint Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Damian of Esphigmenou Monastery, on Mount Athos
- Saint Cosmas of Zograf Monastery, Mount Athos
- Saint Moses of White Lake Monastery, monk
- New Monk-martyr Damian of Philotheou and Kissavos, at Larissa
- New Hieromartyr Lazarus of the Peloponnese
- Venerable Polycarp of Bryansk, monk of Bryansk
- Saint Nazarius, Abbot of Valaam Monastery
- Saint Seraphim, Schema-Metropolitan of Tetritskaro, Georgia, monk of Glinsk Monastery
- New Hieromartyr Paul Kushnikov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Michael Edlinsky, Archpriest, of Kiev
- New Hieromartyr Alexis Nikolsky, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Dimitrov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Michael Razhkin, Priest
- Martyr Sergius Borodavkin
- New Hieromartyr Sergius, Hieromonk, of Novo-Alexandrovka, Moscow
- New Hieromartyr Antipas, hieromonk, of Tatarintsevo, Moscow
- New Hieromartyr Philaret, Abbot, of Trubino, Tver
Other commemorations
- Repose of Archimandrite Agapit of Optina Monastery
- Repose of Elder Sabbas of Cyprus
- Uncovering of the relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow
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