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October 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 1

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 13 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 31st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 18.

Saints

  • Apostles of the Seventy: Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus (1st century)
  • Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, at Alexandria (c. 250)
  • Saint Maura of Constantinople (436)
  • Martyrs Epimachus the Roman and his companion Gordianos (361-363) (see also: May 9)
  • Saint Jacob of Nisibis the Worderworker, Bishop of Antiochia Mygdoniae (4th century)
  • Martyrs Seleucius and Stratonica his wife, myrrh-gushers.
  • Martyrs Stephen, Barnabas, Trophimus, Dorymedon, Cosmas, Damian, Sabbas, Bassa, Abramios, and others with them.
  • The Holy Twelve Daughters.
  • The Holy Three Martyrs of Melitene.
  • The Holy Child Martyr.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Quentin (Quinctinus), martyr.
  • Saint Erth (Erc of Slane, Herygh, Urith) (6th century)
  • Monk-martyr Foillan, Irish missionary, of Burgh Castle (East Anglia) and Fosse (Gaul) (655)
  • Saint Antoninus, called Fontana, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (660)
  • Saint Begu, a nun at Hackness in Yorkshire in England (c. 660)
  • Saint Notburga, a nun at the convent of St Mary in the Capitol in Cologne in Germany (c. 714)
  • Saint Arnulf, a monk at Novalese in Piedmont in Italy, martyred by the Saracens (c. 840)
  • Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg, Bishop of Regensburg (994)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Spyridon and Nicodemus the Prosphora-bakers, of the Kiev Caves (1148)
  • Saint Anatolius, recluse of the Near Caves in Kiev (12th century)
  • 100,000 Martyrs of Tbilisi slain under Jalal al-Din (1227)
  • New Martyr Nicholas of Chios (1754)
  • Righteous Petro Kalnyshevsky, Koshevoy-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1803)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Archpriest, of Chicago and St. Petersburg, First Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik Yoke (1917)
  • New Hieromartyr Leonid (Molchanov), Abbot of the Sovlvychegodsk Monastery, Vologda (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs (1937):
  • Sergius, Archbishop of Yeletsky.
  • Vsevolod Smirnov, Protopresbyter, of Moscow.
  • Alexis Sibersky of Tver, and of Moscow, priest.
  • Alexander Vozdvizhensky and Sergius Rozanov, priests.
  • Basil Archangelsky, priest.
  • Euphrosynus (Antonov), Hieromonk of the Seven Lakes Monastery, Kazan.
  • Anatole (Botvinnikov), Hieromonk, of Dubrovskoye, Tver.
  • New Martyr Jacob Blatov (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Innocent (Mazurin), Hierodeacon, of Buygorod, Volokolamsk (1938)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Commemoration of an Anonymous Apologist, under Julian the Apostate (c. 361)
  • Consecration of the Patriarchal Prayer Chapel.

    • References

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