October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Oct. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 18
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 30 by Old Calendarists
Saints
- Prophet Hosea (820 BC)
- Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian in Cilicia (4th century), and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius.
- Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475)
- Monk-martyr Andrew of Crete (767)
- St. Anthony, abbot, of Leokhnov (Novgorod) (1611)
- St. Joseph (Jandieri) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770)
- New Hieromartyr Alexander (Shchukin), Archbishop of Semipalatinsk (1937)
- Martyrs Æthelred and Æthelberht, princes of Kent (c. 640)
Other Commemorations
- Translation of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), bishop of Kition in Cyprus
- 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)
References
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