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October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 3

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 19.

Saints

  • Saint Damaris of Athens (1st century)
  • Hieromartyr Cyprian and Virgin-martyr Justina of Antioch, and with them Martyr Theoctistus of Nicomedia (304)
  • Martyrs David and Constantine, Princes of Argveti, Georgia (740)
  • Venerable Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sevastoupolis and 36 fathers with him, by beheading (c. 780) (see also: October 1)
  • Venerable Theophilus the Confessor, under the iconoclasts (8th century)
  • Blessed Andrew, Fool-for-Christ, at Constantinople (936) (see also: May 28)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Leudomer (Lomer), Bishop of Chartres in France (c. 585)
  • Saint Gerinus (Garinus, Werinus), brother of St Leodegarius (Leger), persecuted by the tyrant Ebroin, stoned to death near Arras in the north of France (677)
  • Hieromartyr Leodegarius (Leger), Bishop of Autun, imprisoned, blinded and finally murdered by the tyrant Ebroin (679)
  • Saint Beregisus, a priest who founded the monastery of Saint Hubert in the Ardennes in France (c. 725)
  • Saint Ursicinus, Abbot of Disentis Abbey in Switzerland, he became Bishop of Chur in 754 (760)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Great-martyr Theodore Gabras of Atran in Chaldia, of Pontus (1098)
  • Blessed Great Princess Anna of Kashin (Euphrosyne in monasticism) (1368)
  • Saint Cassian the Greek, monk, of Uglich (1504)
  • Blessed Cyprian of Suzdal, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (1622)
  • New Martyr Hadji-George of Philadelphia in Asia Minor, from Mount Athos (1794)
  • Righteous Admiral Theodore Ushakov of the Russian Naval Fleet (1817)

    • New Martys and Confessors

  • Virgin-martyr Alexandra Bulgakova (1938)

    • Other commemorations

  • Repose of Hieroschemamonk Theodosius of Karoulia, Mt. Athos (1937)
  • Repose of Monk Roman the Soldier, of Valaam, martyred in Bosnia (1994)
  • Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Alexander (Vasiliev) of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1998)

    • References

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