October 16 Events Pre-1600 * 456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. * 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. * ...

Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rule ...

- October 18 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 30 by

Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptized members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via ...

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

October 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. *1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. *1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes t ...

Saints

* Prophet

Hosea In the Hebrew Bible, Hosea ( or ; he, הוֹשֵׁעַ – ''Hōšēaʿ'', 'Salvation'; gr, Ὡσηέ – ''Hōsēé''), son of Beeri, was an 8th-century BCE prophet in Israel and the nominal primary author of the Book of Hosea. He is t ...

(Osee) (820 BC)October 17/30
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής.
17 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). ''(see also: December 4,

July 4 Events Pre-1600 *362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. * 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...

)'' * Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians

Cosmas and Damian Cosmas and Damian ( ar, قُزما ودميان, translit=Qozma wa Demyaan; grc-gre, Κοσμᾶς καὶ Δαμιανός, translit=Kosmás kai Damianós; la, Cosmas et Damianus; AD) were two Arab physicians in the town Cyrrhus, and were r ...

, and their brothers, martyrs Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius, and 15 Holy Unmercenaries with them, in

Cilicia Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern co ...

(4th century)October 30 / October 17
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год. * Saints Antigonus, Loukianos, Terentius, Nicomedes and Theophanis.
17/10/2017
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. * Saints Isidora and Neophyte. * Martyr

Queen Queen or QUEEN may refer to: Monarchy * Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom ** List of queens regnant * Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king * Queen dowager, the widow of a king * Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother ...

Shushanik (Susanna) of

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

(475) ''(see also:

August 28 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. * 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way ...

)'' * Hieromartyr

Andrew of Crete Andrew of Crete ( el, , c. 650 – July 4, 712 or 726 or 740), also known as Andrew of Jerusalem, was an 8th-century bishop, theologian, homilist,A list of forty of his discourses, together with twenty-one edited sermons, is given in ''Patrologi ...

, in "the Judgment" (767)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint

Ignatius of Antioch Ignatius of Antioch (; Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Ἀντιοχείας, ''Ignátios Antiokheías''; died c. 108/140 AD), also known as Ignatius Theophorus (, ''Ignátios ho Theophóros'', lit. "the God-bearing"), was an early Christian writer ...

, called 'the God-bearer', Bishop of Antioch (107)October 17
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. (''see also:

December 20 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian. * 1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England a ...

- 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 Regulus is the brightest object in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation designated α Leonis, which is Latinized to Alpha Leonis, and abbreviated Alpha Leo or α Leo. Re ...

(''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) * Saint

Florentius of Orange Saint Florentius of Orange (french: Florent d'Orange) was bishop of the city of Orange in France around 517–524.

, the eighth

Bishop of Orange The ancient residential diocese of Orange in the Comtat Venaissin in Provence, a fief belonging to the Papacy, was suppressed by the French government during the French Revolution. It was revived in 2009 as a titular see of the Roman Catholic ...

in the south of France (c. 526) * Saint Victor of Capua, consecrated

Bishop of Capua The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua ( la, Archidioecesis Capuana) is an archdiocese (originally a suffragan bishopric) of the Roman Catholic Church in Capua, in Campania, Italy, but its archbishop no longer holds metropolitan rank and has no ...

in Italy in 541 and a prolific writer (554) * Saint

Colmán of Kilroot Colman mac Cathbaid is a sixth-century Irish saint who was an abbot and bishop of Kilroot (Co. Antrim), a minor see which was afterwards incorporated in the Diocese of Connor. He may have given his name to Kilmackevat (Co. Antrim). In the ''Life ...

, a disciple of St Ailbe of Emly and Bishop of

Kilroot , translit_lang1 = Irish , translit_lang1_type = Derivation: , translit_lang1_info = , translit_lang1_type1 = Meaning: , translit_lang1_info1 = Church of the redhead , image_s ...

near

Carrickfergus Carrickfergus ( , meaning " Fergus' rock") is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 27,998 at the 2011 Census. It is County Antrim's oldest ...

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 Saints Æthelred and Æthelberht (also ''Ethelred'', ''Ethelbert'') according to the Kentish royal legend (attested in the 11th century) were princes of the Kingdom of Kent who were murdered in around AD 669, and later commemorated as saints and ...

, Princes of Kent (c. 640) * Saint Berarius, Bishop of Le Mans in France (c. 680) * Saint

Anstrudis Saint Anstrudis (Anstrude, Austru, or Austrude) (b. unknown - 688) was the daughter of Saint Blandinus and Saint Sadalberga, the founder of the Abbey of St. John at Laon. She was also the sister of Saint . Background In Merovingian Gaul, foundi ...

of Laon (688) * Saint Nothhelm, eleventh

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Just ...

and a friend of St

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom ...

and St Boniface (739)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Martyr Kozman (''Kosmas''), of

. * Venerable Anthony, founder of Leokhnov Monastery, Novgorod (1611) * Saint Ioseb (Jandierishvili) the

Wonderworker Thaumaturgy is the purported capability of a magician to work magic or other paranormal events or a saint to perform miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking. A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a "thaumaturge", "thauma ...

, Catholicos of Georgia (1770)

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 In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdio ...

of Semipalatinsk (1937)

Other commemorations

Translation Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...

of the

relics In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...

(695) of St. Etheldreda, Royal

Abbess of Ely The Bishop of Ely is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ely in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese roughly covers the county of Cambridgeshire (with the exception of the Soke of Peterborough), together with a section of north ...

(679)Rev.

Sabine Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould ( ; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 ...

(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 Events Pre-1600 * 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. *1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Republic of Venice, Venetians defeat a larger Republic of Genoa, Genoese fleet, capturing all its s ...

'') *

of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), Bishop of

Kition Kition ( Egyptian: ; Phoenician: , , or , ; Ancient Greek: , ; Latin: ) was a city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca). According to the text on the plaque closest to the excavation pit of the Kathari site (as of ...

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ...

(1st century) * Icon of the Mother of God "In Giving Birth, you Preserved your Virginity" (1827) * Icon of the Mother of God the "Deliveress" / Rescuer (1889) ''(see also:

October 1 Events Pre-1600 * 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. * 366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated. * 959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadw ...

, October 28 and

April 4 Events Pre-1600 *503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &ndas ...

)'' *

Synaxis {{For, the moth genus, Synaxis (moth) A synaxis ( el, σύναξις "gathering"; Slavonic: собор, ''sobor'') is a liturgical assembly in Eastern Christianity (the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the ...

of the Patron Saints of the Holy Metropolis of Hydra,

Spetses Spetses ( el, Σπέτσες, grc, Πιτυούσσα "Pityussa", Arvanitika: Πετσε̱) is an upscale affluent island in Attica, Greece. It is included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolis ...

and

Aegina Aegina (; el, Αίγινα, ''Aígina'' ; grc, Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of the hero Aeacus, who was born on the island an ...

, 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 Foolishness for Christ ( el, διά Χριστόν σαλότητα, cu, оуродъ, юродъ) refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining an ascetic order or religious life, or deliberately flouting socie ...

, of Goloseyevo, Kiev (1988)

Icon gallery

File:Hosea (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Prophet

(Osee). File:Hosea.jpg, Prophet

(Osee). File:Cosmas and Damian in Cilicia, and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians

, and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius. File:Светитељи Козма и Дамјан.jpg, Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians

. File:Shushanik.jpg, Martyr

Shushanik (Susanna) of

. File:KocaMustafaPashaMosque20072812 03.jpg, The former Church of the monastery of Hagios Andreas "en te Krisei". File:Alex shukin 2010.jpg, New Hieromartyr Alexander (Shchukin),

of Semipalatinsk. File:St-aethelthryth.jpg, St. Etheldreda, Royal

. File:Larnaka - St.Lazarus Krypta 2 Lazarus-Ikone.jpg, St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days".

Notes

References

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Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
October 30 / October 17
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
October 17
OCA - The Lives of the Saints. * The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 77. *

'' Orthodoxy in China.

Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * '' The Roman Martyrology.'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 321. * Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 498–502. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
17 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
17 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). *
17/10/2017
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *

Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год. {{DEFAULTSORT:October 17 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) October in the Eastern Orthodox calendar