October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 3
October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Sep. 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 2All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 14 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles *Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer"...
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 3
October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Oct. 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 4-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 16 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Hieromartyr Dionysius of Athens, bishop, and with him martyrs Rusticus and Eleutherius...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 15 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
- 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....
Cyprian, virgin-martyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
Justina, and Theoctistus of NicomediaNicomediaNicomedia was an ancient city in what is now Turkey, founded in 712/11 BC as a Megarian colony and was originally known as Astacus . After being destroyed by Lysimachus, it was rebuilt by Nicomedes I of Bithynia in 264 BC under the name of Nicomedia, and has ever since been one of the most...
(268268Year 268 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paternus and Egnatius...
-304304Year 304 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius...
) - Blessed AndrewAndrew of ConstantinopleAndrew of Constantinople , is considered a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and is revered as a Fool for Christ....
, Fool-for-Christ, at ConstantinopleConstantinopleConstantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
(936936Year 936 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.- Asia :* King Taejo of Goryeo defeats Hubaekje....
) - Repose of Blessed Great Princess Anna of KashinAnna of KashinSaint Anna of Kashin was a Russian princess from the Rurik Dynasty, who was canonized in 1650.-Life:Anna was a daughter of Prince Dmitry Borisovich of Rostov and a great-granddaughter of Prince Vasily of Rostov. From her earliest years, Anna was brought up strictly Christian. She was taught the...
(1338) - Blessed Cyprian of Suzdal, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1622)
- SaintSaintA saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...
CassianCassianCassian may refer to:*St. Cassian of Imola, fourth century Christian martyr*St. Cassian of Autun, fourth century Christian bishop of Autun*St. John Cassian the ascetic, 5th century French Christian saint and author.*St...
of UglichUglichUglich is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, which stands on the Volga River. Population: A local tradition dates the town's origins to 937. It was first documented in 1148 as Ugliche Pole...
, 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...
(1504) - Martyrs David and Constantine, princes of ArgvetiArgvetiArgveti , also Argwet’i or Margweti , is a historic district in Imereti, western Georgia.The area lay on the historic Iberian-Lazican frontier, i.e., between what are now eastern and western parts of Georgia...
, 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...
(730730Year 730 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 730 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.- Europe :* Charles Martel defeats the last independent...
) - Martyr George of Philadelphia in Asia MinorAsia MinorAsia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...
, from Mount AthosMount AthosMount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...
(1749) - Saint Damaris of AthensDamarisDamaris is the name of a woman mentioned in Acts of the Apostles .- Life :According to Acts of the Apostles , Damaris lived in Athens in the mid 1st century. She embraced the Christian faith following the speech of Paul of Tarsus, given in front of the Athenian Areopagus...
(1st century) - Saint Theophilus the Confessor
- Great-martyr Theodore GavraTheodore GabrasTheodore Gabras was a Byzantine governor in the Pontus who was involved in a minor unsuccessful rebellion against the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos around the year 1091.-Early life:...
of Atran in ChaldeaChaldeaChaldea or Chaldaea , from Greek , Chaldaia; Akkadian ; Hebrew כשדים, Kaśdim; Aramaic: ܟܐܠܕܘ, Kaldo) was a marshy land located in modern-day southern Iraq which came to briefly rule Babylon...
(1180) - Righteous Admiral Theodore Ushakov of the Russian Naval Fleet (1817)
Other commemorations
- Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Theodosius of Karoulia at Mount Athos (1937)
- New Martyr Monk-Soldier Roman (1971-1994) (Martyred in Bosnia on October 2, 1994)
Sources
- Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
- Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar
- Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes. New Martyred Soldiers For Christ Our Lord. January 30, 2004.