October 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Oct. 29 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 31

All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 12 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 30th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 17.

Saints

Apostle Cleopas of the Seventy, brother of Righteous Joseph the Betrothed (1st century)

Apostles Tertius (Terence), Mark, Justus, and Artemas, of the Seventy Disciples (1st century)

Hieromartyr Marcian, Bishop of Syracuse (2nd century) (See also: February 9)

Virgin-martyr Apollonia of Alexandria the deaconess (parthénos presbytis), and those with her in Alexandria (249) (See also: February 9.)

Martyrs Alexander, Cronion, Julian, Macarius, and 13 companions, at Alexandria (250)

Martyr Eutropia of Alexandria (250)

Hieromartyr Zenobius, Bishop of Aegae in Cilicia, and his sister Zenobia (285)

Martyrs Claudius, Asterius, Neon and Neonilla, siblings, of Laranda in Cilicia, by beheading (c. 288)

Martyr Manuel (Emmanuel).

Martyr Dometios of Phrygia, by the sword.

Martyr Demios, the former executioner. (See also: March 25)

Holy Nine Martyrs.

Saint Asterius, Metropolitan of Amasea (before 431)

Venerable Therapon, Ascetic and Wonderworker of Lythrodontas, Cyprus (c. 7th century)

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Marcellus of Tangier, a Roman centurion in Tangier in North Africa (298)

Saints Claudius, Lupercus and Victorius, three brothers, sons of the centurion St Marcellus of Tangier, martyred in Léon in Spain under Diocletian (c. 300)

Saint Saturninus of Cagliari, a martyr in Cagliari in Sardinia under Diocletian, beheaded during a pagan festival of Jupiter (303)

Saint Theonestus, by tradition Bishop of Philippi, later martyred in Altino in Italy (425)

Martyrs of North-West Africa.

Saint Arilda of Oldbury, virgin-martyr in Gloucestershire, England (c. 5th century)

Saint Eutropia, a holy woman who lived in Auvergne in France (5th century)

Saint Lucanus, a martyr in Lagny in France, where his relics were enshrined (5th century)

Saint Germanus of Capua, Bishop of Capua and a friend of St Benedict (c. 545)

Saint Talarican, probably Pictish, St Talarican was a bishop in Scotland and several churches were dedicated to him (8th century)

Saint Herbert (Haberne, Herbern), Abbot of Marmoutier and later Archbishop of Tours in France (916)

Saint Ethelnoth, called 'the Good' and famed for his wisdom, was a monk at Glastonbury, became thirty-second Archbishop of Canterbury (1038)

Saint Nanterius (Nantier, Nantère), Abbot of Saint Mihiel Abbey in Lorraine in France (1044)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Saint Joseph I Galesiotes, Patriarch of Constantinople (1283)

Saint Stephen Milutin, King of Serbia (1320), his brother St. Dragutin (monk Theoctistus) (1316), and their mother St. Helen (1306)

Martyr Jotham Zedginidze, near Lake Paravani, Georgia (1465)

Saint St Eutropia (Isayenkova) of Kherson, Nun in Crimea, aged 105 years (1968)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Nicanor (Kudriavtsev) bishop of Bogoroditsk (1923)

New Hieromartyr Eugene (Zernov), Metropolitan of Gorkovsky (Nizhni Novgorod) (1935)

New Hieromartyr Leonid Vinogradov, Priest (1941)

New Hieromartyr Matthew Kazarin, Protodeacon of Alma Ata (1942)

New Hiero-confessor Varnava Nastić of Bosnia, Bishop of Hvosno (1964)

Other Commemorations

Finding of the relics of Great-martyr Stephen-Urosh III of Decani, Serbia (1338)

Icon of the Mother of God of Ozeryanka (16th century)

Uncovering of the relics of St. Agafangel (Preobrazhensky), Metropolitan of Yaroslavl, Confessor of the Faith (1998)

Uncovering of the relics of St. Eutropia (Isayenkova) of Kherson (2009)

Repose of Archimandrite Boris (Kholchev) of Tashkent (1971)

References

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