October 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 23
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 9.
From the Synaxarion
- Saint Zacharias the Martyr, Orthodox martyr, by drowning in the sea (either same as, or different from, saint commemorated on October 21)
Saints
- Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Hierapolis (167)
- Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop, and Martyrs Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria, at Adrianople (2nd-3rd centuries)
- The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus (250 and c. 446) <small>(see also: August 4 )</small>
- Martyr Theodoret, at Antioch (362)
- Venerables Lot and Rufus, of Egypt (5th century)
- Saint Eulavios, Bishop of Lambousa (ancient Lapithos).
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Philip of Fermo, Bishop and martyr of Fermo in Italy (c. 270)
- Saint Mellonius (Mellon), first Bishop of Rouen (314)
- Saint Nepotianus, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 388)
- Saint Verecundus (Verecondo), Bishop of Verona in Italy (522)
- Saint Simplicius, a disciple of St Benedict and third Abbot of Montecassino (c. 570)
- Saint Maroveus, a monk at Bobbio Abbey and founder of the monastery of Precipiano near Tortona in Italy (650)
- Saint Nunctus (Noint), Abbot of a monastery near Mérida in the west of Spain, murdered by robbers and venerated as a martyr (668)
- Saint Moderan (Moderamnus, Moran), Bishop of Rennes, then became a hermit in Berceto in Italy (c. 730)
- Saint Benedict of Massérac (Benoît de Macérac), a Greek abbot who fled from Petras and settled in Macerac near Nantes in France (845)
- Saints Nunilo and Alodia, two sisters, a pair of child-martyrs from Huesca in Spain (851)
- Saint Bertharius, a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino, martyred together with several of his monks by invading Saracens (884)
- Saint Donatus of Fiesole, born in Ireland, he went on pilgrimage to Rome and became Bishop of Fiesole near Florence in Italy (874)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New Martys and Confessors
* Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich;
* Herman (Polyansky) and Menas (Shelaev), Archimandrites;
* Alexander Lebedev, Vladimir Sobolev, Basil Bogoyavlensky, and Alexander Andreyev, Priests.
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Bogoslovsky and Nicholas Ushakov, Priests (1937)
- New Hieromartyr Gregory (Vorobiev), Abbot, of Koprino, Yaroslavl (1937)
Other commemorations
- The Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (commemorating the deliverance from the Poles in 1612)
- Icons of the Mother of God "Andronikos" and "Jacobstadt" (17th century)
- Repose of Monk Joseph the Silent, of Kuban (1925)
- Repose of Metropolitan Nestor of Kamchatka and Petropavlovsk (1962)
- Repose of Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky (1988)
- Uncovering of the relics (2012) of New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Kononov), Bishop of Belgorod (1918) <small>(see also: October 20 )</small>
Icon gallery
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References
Sources
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