October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 18

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 4.

Saints Prophet Hosea (Osee) (820 BC)October 17/30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Προφήτης Ὠσηέ. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 17 Οκτωβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).Prophet Hosea. OCA - Lives of the Saints. (see also: December 4, July 4) Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian, and their brothers, martyrs Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius, and 15 Holy Unmercenaries with them,Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κοσμᾶς, Δαμιανός, Λεόντιος, Ἄνθιμος καὶ Εὐπρέπιος οἱ Ἀνάργυροι καὶ οἱ σὺν αυτῶν 15 Ἀνάργυροι. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. in Cilicia (4th century)October 30 / October 17. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). 17 октября по старому стилю / 30 октября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год.Martyr and Unmercenary Cosmas and his brother in Cilicia. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saints Antigonus, Loukianos, Terentius, Nicomedes and Theophanis.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀντίγονος, Λουκιανός, Τερέντιος, Νικομήδης καὶ Θεοφάνης. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. 17/10/2017. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. Saints Isidora and Neophyte.Great Synaxaristes: Οἱ Ἁγίες Ἰσιδώρα καὶ Νεοφύτη. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475) (see also: August 28) Hieromartyr Andrew of Crete, in "the Judgment" (767)Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνδρέας ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Monkmartyr Andrew of Crete. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ANDREW OF CRETE, M. (A.D. 767.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 451-454. (see also: October 21)

Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Ignatius of Antioch, called 'the God-bearer', Bishop of Antioch (107)October 17. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. (see also: December 20 - East) Saint Solina, born in Gascony in France, she escaped to Chartres to avoid marriage to a pagan, was beheaded in Chartres (c. 290) Saint Regulus (Rule), by tradition an abbot who brought relics of St Andrew from Greece to Scotland, leading to St Andrew's adoption as the patron-saint of Scotland (4th century)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. REGULUS, B. (8TH CENT.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 454-455. Saint Florentius of Orange, the eighth Bishop of Orange in the south of France (c. 526) Saint Victor of Capua, consecrated Bishop of Capua in Italy in 541 and a prolific writer (554) Saint Colmán of Kilroot, a disciple of St Ailbe of Emly and Bishop of Kilroot near Carrickfergus in Ireland (6th century) Saint Louthiern, born in Ireland, he is the patron-saint of St Ludgran in Cornwall (6th century) Martyrs Æthelred and Æthelberht, Princes of Kent (c. 640)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "SS. ETHELRED AND ETHELBERT, MM. (A.D. 670.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 438-440. Saint Berarius, Bishop of Le Mans in France (c. 680) Saint Anstrudis of Laon (688)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. AUSTRUDE, V. ABSS. (8TH CENT.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 447-449. Saint Nothhelm, eleventh Archbishop of Canterbury and a friend of St Bede and St Boniface (739)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. NOTHELM, ABP. OF CANTERBURY. (A.D. 741.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 449-451.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Martyr Kozman (Kosmas), of Georgia.Great Synaxaristes: Ὁ Ἅγιος Κοσμᾶς ὁ ἐν Γεωργίᾳ. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Zakaria Machitadze (Archpriest). Lives of the Georgian Saints. First English Edition. St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2006. pp. 389-390.Martyr Kozman. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Venerable Anthony, founder of Leokhnov Monastery, Novgorod (1611)Venerable Anthony the Abbot of Leokhnov, Novgorod. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Saint Ioseb (Jandierishvili) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770)St. Joseph the Catholicos of Georgia. OCA - Lives of the Saints.Zakaria Machitadze (Archpriest). Lives of the Georgian Saints. First English Edition. St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2006. pp. 388-389.

New Martys and Confessors New Hieromartyrs Neophyt Lyubimov and Anatoly Ivanovsky, Priests (1918) 30 октября (17 октября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). New Monk-martyrs Jacinthus Pitatelev and Callistus Oparin, of the St. Nicholas Monastery, Verkhoturye (1918) New Hieromartyr Alexander (Shchukin), Archbishop of Semipalatinsk (1937) АЛЕКСАНДР. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).

Other commemorations Translation of the relics (695) of St. Etheldreda, Royal Abbess of Ely (679)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ETHELDREDA, V.Q. ABSS. (A.D. 679.)" In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Twelfth: October – Part II. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. p. 440-447. (see also: June 23 ) Translation of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), Bishop of Kition in Cyprus (1st century)Great Synaxaristes: Ἀνακομιδὴ καὶ Κατάθεσις τοῦ Λειψάνου τοῦ Ἁγίου καὶ Δικαίου Λαζάρου. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Translation of the relics of St Lazarus "of the Four Days in the Tomb" the Bishop of Kiteia on Cyprus. OCA - Lives of the Saints. Icon of the Mother of God "In Giving Birth, you Preserved your Virginity" (1827)Icon of the Mother of God "In Giving Birth, you Preserved your Virginity". OCA - Lives of the Saints. Icon of the Mother of God the "Deliveress" / Rescuer (1889)Icon of the Mother of God the "Deliveress". OCA - Lives of the Saints. «ИЗБАВИТЕЛЬНИЦА» ИКОНА БОЖИЕЙ МАТЕРИ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). (see also: October 1, October 28 and April 4) Synaxis of the Patron Saints of the Holy Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, in Greece.Great Synaxaristes: Μνήμη πάντων τῶν Προστατῶν καὶ Πολιούχων Ἁγίων της Ἱερᾶς Μητροπόλεως Ὕδρας. 17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Repose of Elder Athanasius (Zakharov) of Ploshchansk Hermitage (1825), disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky). Repose of Nun Alypia, Fool-for-Christ, of Goloseyevo, Kiev (1988)

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