Saints of the day
Orthodox saints of July 11
The feasts and saints the Orthodox Church commemorates on July 11 — on the Old Calendar, civil July 24.
Commemorated on July 11
- Great Martyr Euphemia the All-praised
- St. Olga, Equal-to-the-Apostles
Great Martyr Euphemia
Martyred at Chalcedon (†303). At the Fourth Ecumenical Council (451), held at her tomb, the fathers laid both definitions of faith in her coffin — she held the Orthodox tomos in her hand.
St. Olga
Grandmother of St. Vladimir (†969) and the first of the Rus' to receive baptism — 'the dawn before the sunrise' of the Baptism of Rus'.
When it falls
- New Calendar: July 11 every year
- Old Calendar: civil July 24
Commemorations follow the Menaion of the Orthodox Church. New Calendar parishes keep them on the date shown; Old Calendar parishes keep them 13 days later on the civil calendar. Local churches add their own saints — your parish calendar comes first.