title: February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  February 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - February 25
  
  All fixed commemorations below are observed on March 9 (March 8 on leap years) by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For February 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on February 11.
  
  ## Feast
  
  * First (4th century) and Second (452) Findings of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Saint John the Harvester (Theristos), of Calabria (9th century)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Martyrs Montanus, Lucias, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions, at Carthage (259)
  * Saint Primitiva (Primitivus), an early martyr, probably in Rome.
  * Saint Modestus, Bishop of Trier in Germany and Confessor (489)
  * Saint Praetextatus (Prix), Bishop of Rouen in France and Martyr (586)
  * Saint Liudhard (Letard), Chaplain and Bishop of Queen Bertha of Kent (c. 600)
  * Saint Æthelberht of Kent, King of Kent (616) (see also: February 25)
  * Saint Boisil of Melrose Abbey (664) (see also: February 23)
  * Saint Cummain Ailbe (Cumine the White), Abbot of Iona (669)
  * Saint Betto, a monk at Sainte Colombe in Sens in France, who became Bishop of Auxerre in 889 (918)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Venerable Erasmus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (c. 1160)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Uncovering of the relics (1486) of St. Romanus, Prince of Uglich (1285)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * John the Baptist.
  * Monastery of Saint John Theristus, Bivongi, province of Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  * Saint Praetextatus (Prix).
  * Replica of the Liudhard medalet, which depicts Liudhard.
  * St. Æthelberht of Kent (All Souls College Chapel, Oxford).
  * St. Boisil greets St. Cuthbert at Melrose Abbey.
  