# October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 25
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 11.

## Saints

* Martyr Sebastiani (1st century)
* Martyrs Sotiricus and Valentinos, from Asia Minor, by being dragged over sharp stones.
* Hieromartyr Akakios the Presbyter, by the sword.
* Martyr Nerdonus, by fire.
* Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople (447)
* Great-martyr Arethas of Omir and 4,299 martyrs with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters (523) (see also: November 24.)
* A holy woman martyr and her child, together with Martyr Arethas of Omir and his companions (523)
* Blessed Elesbaan (Caleb), King of Ethiopia (553-555)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyrs Felix (Africanus), Audactus (Adauctus), Januarius, Fortunatus and Septimus (303)
* Saint Evergislus (Ebregesilus, Eberigisil), a Bishop of Cologne in Germany, martyred by heathen robbers (5th century)
* Saint Maglorius of Sark (Maelor), Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany (575)
* Saint Senoch the Healer, Abbot, of Tours, Gaul (576)
* Saint Cadfarch, a disciple of St Iltyd, he founded churches in Penegoes and Abererch in Wales (6th century)
* Saint Martin of Vertou, founder of the monastery of Vertou near Nantes, also of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes and other monasteries (601)
* Saint Marcius (Mark, Martin), a hermit at Montecassino in Italy (c. 679)
* Saint Fromundus (Frodemundus), Monk, Abbot and then Bishop of Coutances in France (c. 690)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Arethas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves (1190)
* Venerable Sisoes of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
* Venerable Theophilus the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (12th-13th century)
* Saint Athanasius I of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (1311) (see also: October 28)
* Saint John, recluse, of the Pskov Caves (1616)
* Venerable Zosima (Verkhovsky), Elder, of Siberia (1833)
* Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece (1959) (see also: November 4 - Greek)

### New Martys and Confessors

* New Hieromartyr Lawrence (Knyazev), Bishop of Balakhnin, and Alexis Porfiriev, Archpriest, and with them New Martyr Alexis Neidhardt (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Arethas (Mitrenin), Hieromonk of Valaam (1932),
* New Hieromartyrs John Smirnov and Nicholas Nikolsky, Priests (1937)
* New Martyr Peter Bogorodsky, Priest (1938)

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos The "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (Moscow) (1688)
* Repose of Blessed Eudocia of Ryazan (1890)
* Repose of Hieroschemamonk Barsanuphius of Valaam (1910)

## Icon gallery

* Great-martyr Arethas of Omir and 4,299 martyrs with him.
* St. Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople.
* Coin of Blessed Elesbaan (Caleb), King of Ethiopia.
* Relics of St. Maglorius of Sark (Maelor), Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne.
* Chapel of St. Martin of Vertou, Cathédrale de Nantes.
* Venerable Arethas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves.
* Venerable Zosima (Verkhovsky), Elder, of Siberia.
* Venerable George (Karslidis) of Drama.
* New Hieromartyr Lawrence (Knyazev), Bishop of Balakhnin.
* New Martyr Alexis Neidhardt.
* Icon of the Mother of God "Joy of all who Sorrow".