# October 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 16
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 28 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 2.

## Saints

* Martyrs Sarbelus (Thathuil) and his sister Bebaia, of Edessa (98-138) (see also: January 29 )
* Hieromartyr Lucian of Antioch, Presbyter of Greater Antioch (312)
* Venerable Barsus the Confessor, Bishop of Edessa (378)
* St. Theophilus I of Alexandria, 23rd Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (d. 412).
* Saint Sabinus, Bishop of Catania, Wonderworker (760)
* Venerable Euthymius the New, of Thessalonica, Confessor (889) (see also: January 4)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Agileus, martyred in Carthage in North Africa, (c. 300)
* Saint Aurelia of Strasbourg (Alsace, Gaul) (c. 383)
* Saint Severus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany, Confessor (c. 455)
* Saint Antiochus of Lyon (Andeol), Bishop of Lyon (5th century)
* Saint Cannatus (Canus Natus), Bishop of Marseilles in France after St Honoratus (5th century)
* Saint Fortunatus, a martyr in Rome (537?)
* Saint Leonard of Vandœuvre, a hermit who founded Vandoeuvre, now Saint-Léonard-des-Bois, near Le Mans in France (c. 570)
* Saint Thecla, Abbess, of Ochsenfurt, Germany (c. 790)
* Saint Odilo, a monk at Gorze Abbey in Lorraine in France, who became Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium (c. 954)
* Saint Callistus, martyr (1003)
* Saint Bruno of Merseburg (Bruno-Boniface), Archbishop of Mersburg, martyred by the heathen Prussians (1009)
* Saint Willa, a nun at Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria who reposed as an anchoress (c. 1050)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Hieromartyr Lucian, Hieromonk of the Kiev Caves (1243)
* Saint John, Bishop of Suzdal (1373)
* Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal (1385)

### New Martys and Confessors

* New Hieromartyr Symeon Konyukhov, Priest (1918)
* New Hieromartyr Valerian Novitsky, Priest, of Telyadovich (1930)
* New Hieromartyr Demetrius Kasatkin, Priest (1942)
* New Hiero-confessor Athanasius (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov (1962)
* Synaxis of the 23 New Hieromartyrs of the Minsk Diocese of Belorussia (1930-1950):
   * Archimandrite: Seraphim (Shakhmut), of Zhyrovichy Monastery (1945);
   * Priests: Alexander Shalai (1937); Vladimir Zubkovich (1938); Vladimir Izmailov (1930); Vladimir Pasternatsky (1938); Vladimir Khirasko (1932); Dimitry Pavsky (1937); John Voronet (1937); Leonid Biryukovich (1937); Matthew Kritsuk (1950); Michael Novitsky (1935); Michael Plyshevsky (1937); Porphyrius Rubanovich (1937); Sergius Rodakovsky (1933); Valerian Novitsky (1930); Vladimir Taliush (1933); Vladimir Khrischanovich (1933); Dimitry Plyshevsky (1938); John Vecherko (1933); John Pankratovich (1937); Nicholas Matskevich (1937); Peter Grudinsky (1930); and
   * Deacon: Nicholas Vasyukovich (1937).

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who Ripens the Grain" / "The Grower of Crops" (19th century)

## Icon gallery

* 'Hieromartyr Lucian of Antioch, Presbyter of Greater Antioch.
* St. Sabinus, Bishop of Catania, Wonderworker.
* New Hiero-confessor Athanasius (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov.
* Reliquary of New Hiero-confessor Athanasius (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov.
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who Ripens the Grain".