October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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October 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Oct. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 17-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 29 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Martyr Longinus the Centurion who stood at the Cross of the Lord...
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 18
October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Oct. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 19All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 31 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke * Hieromartyr Cyriacus , Bishop of Jerusalem...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 30 by Old CalendaristsOld Style and New Style dates
Old Style and New Style are used in English language historical studies either to indicate that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January even though documents written at the time use a different start of year ; or to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian...
Saints
- Holy ProphetProphetIn religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...
HoseaHoseaHosea was the son of Beeri and a prophet in Israel in the 8th century BC. He is one of the Twelve Prophets of the Jewish Hebrew Bible, also known as the Minor Prophets of the Christian Old Testament. Hosea is often seen as a "prophet of doom", but underneath his message of destruction is a promise...
(820 BC) - Holy MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
s and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian in CiliciaCiliciaIn antiquity, Cilicia was the south coastal region of Asia Minor, south of the central Anatolian plateau. It existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Byzantine empire...
(4th century), and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius. - Martyr QueenQueen consortA queen consort is the wife of a reigning king. A queen consort usually shares her husband's rank and holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles. Historically, queens consort do not share the king regnant's political and military powers. Most queens in history were queens consort...
ShushanikShushanikSaint Shushanik was a Christian woman who was murdered by her husband Varsken in the town of Tsurtavi, Georgia. Since she died defending her right to profess Christianity, she is regarded as a martyr...
(Susanna) of GeorgiaGeorgia (country)Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
(475475Year 475 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Zeno without colleague...
) - MonkMonkA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...
-martyr Andrew of CreteAndrew of Crete (martyr)For the archbishop of the same name, see Andrew of Crete.Saint Andrew of Crete is a martyr of the Christian Church. A fervent iconophile, he was killed at the orders of Emperor Constantine V in 766 or 767, during the Byzantine Iconoclasm. His feast day is October 20...
(767767Year 767 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 767 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.-Africa:* The Kharijite Berbers of Tlemcen and Tiaret...
) - St. Anthony, abbot, of Leokhnov (Novgorod) (1611)
- St. Joseph (JandieriJandieriJandieri was a Georgian noble family known from the seventeenth century as grandees in the Kingdom of Kakheti.According to the genealogical treatise by Prince Ioann of Georgia , the family was elevated, in 1628, to the princely rank by the king Teimuraz I of Kakheti...
) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770) - NewNew MartyrThe title of New Martyr or Neomartyr of the Eastern Orthodox Church was originally given to martyrs who died under heretical rulers . Later the Church added to the list those martyred under Islam and various modern regimes, especially Communist ones, which espoused state atheism...
HieromartyrHieromartyrIn the Eastern Orthodox tradition, a hieromartyr is a martyr who was also one of the clergy . In like manner a priest-monk is often called a hieromonk....
Alexander (Shchukin), ArchbishopArchbishopAn archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
of Semipalatinsk (1937) - Martyrs EthelredEthelredÆthelred, also Ethelred, is an Old English personal name and may refer to:-Anglo-Saxon England:* Æthelred of Mercia , King of Mercia...
and EthelbertEthelbertÆthelberht, Aethelbert or Ethelbert, is an Anglo-Saxon male name, from the Old English eþel meaning "noble" and berht meaning "bright". It may refer to:*King Æthelbert of Kent Æthelberht, Aethelbert or Ethelbert, is an Anglo-Saxon male name, from the Old English eþel meaning "noble" and berht...
, princes of Kent (ca. 640)
Other Commemorations
- TranslationTranslation (relics)In Christianity, the translation of relics is the removal of holy objects from one locality to another ; usually only the movement of the remains of the saint's body would be treated so formally, with secondary relics such as items of clothing treated with less ceremony...
of the relics (898898Year 898 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* A Magyar army headed by Álmos besieges Kiev.* Magyar tribes found the state of Szekesfehervar in Hungary....
) of St. LazarusLazarus of BethanyLazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus or Lazarus of the Four Days, is the subject of a prominent miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death...
"Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), bishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of Kition in CyprusCyprusCyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the... - Repose of Elder Athanasius (Zakharov) of Ploshchansk Hermitage (1825), disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky)
- Repose of Nun AlypiaAlypiaAlypia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.-Species:* Alypia australis Schaus, 1920* Alypia langtoni Couper, 1865* Alypia lulesa Köhler, 1940* Alypia mariposa Grote & Robinson, 1868* Alypia octomaculata...
, fool-for-Christ, of Goloseyevo (KievKievKiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
) (1988)