Commemoration of the Holy and Glorious Great Martyr Demetrius, of Thessalonica (circa 306); Venerable Theophilus, Bishop of Novhorod, of the Distant Caves in the Kyiv Caves Abbey (ca.1482); Martyr Lupus, slave of Saint Demetrius of Thessalonica (306); Saint Athanasius of Medikion Monastery (ca. 814); Venerable Dimitry Basarbovskyi (1685, Bulgaria).
Monthly Archives: October 2025
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Prophet Joel (800 B.C.); Martyr Warus and seven monk-martyrs in Egypt (307); Blessed Cleopatra (327) and her son John, in Egypt; Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him (342); Venerable Gabriel of Athos (1901); Conference (Gathering) of Holy Healers (transitional celebration on the Sunday closest to October 17-18).
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787); Martyrs Probus, Tarachus, and Andronicus at Tarsus in Cilicia (304); Venerable Cosmas the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma (787); Martyr Domnina of Anazarbus (286); Saint Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours (ca. 400). Jerusalem (48), and Rudnens’k (1687) icons of the Mother God.
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
Commemoration of Martyr Charitina of Amisus (304); Venerable Damian the Presbyter, Healer (1071), and Saints Jeremiah (ca. 1070) and Matthew (1085), clairvoyants of the Kyiv Caves Abbey, in the Near Caves; Hieromartyr Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria (264-265); Martyr Mamelta (Mamelchtha) of Persia (344); Venerable Gregory of Khandzoy (Khandzta) (861, Georgia).