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October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

  • New Hieromartyrs(1937):
* 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>

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