# October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 23
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 9.

## From the Synaxarion

* Saint Zacharias the Martyr, Orthodox martyr, by drowning in the sea (either same as, or different from, saint commemorated on October 21)

## Saints

* Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Hierapolis (167)
* Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop, and Martyrs Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria, at Adrianople (2nd-3rd centuries)
* The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus (250 and c. 446) (see also: August 4 )
* Martyr Theodoret, at Antioch (362)
* Venerables Lot and Rufus, of Egypt (5th century)
* Saint Eulavios, Bishop of Lambousa (ancient Lapithos).

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Philip of Fermo, Bishop and martyr of Fermo in Italy (c. 270)
* Saint Mellonius (Mellon), first Bishop of Rouen (314)
* Saint Nepotianus, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 388)
* Saint Verecundus (Verecondo), Bishop of Verona in Italy (522)
* Saint Simplicius, a disciple of St Benedict and third Abbot of Montecassino (c. 570)
* Saint Maroveus, a monk at Bobbio Abbey and founder of the monastery of Precipiano near Tortona in Italy (650)
* Saint Nunctus (Noint), Abbot of a monastery near Mérida in the west of Spain, murdered by robbers and venerated as a martyr (668)
* Saint Moderan (Moderamnus, Moran), Bishop of Rennes, then became a hermit in Berceto in Italy (c. 730)
* Saint Benedict of Massérac (Benoît de Macérac), a Greek abbot who fled from Petras and settled in Macerac near Nantes in France (845)
* Saints Nunilo and Alodia, two sisters, a pair of child-martyrs from Huesca in Spain (851)
* Saint Bertharius, a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino, martyred together with several of his monks by invading Saracens (884)
* Saint Donatus of Fiesole, born in Ireland, he went on pilgrimage to Rome and became Bishop of Fiesole near Florence in Italy (874)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saints Theodore and Paul, Abbots, of Rostov (1409)
* Saint Gregory of Methoni, Bishop of Methoni in Greece and Ethnomartyr (1825)
* Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece (1959) (see also: October 24 - Russian; November 4 - Greek)

### New Martys and Confessors

* New Hieromartyrs(1937):
   * Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich;
   * Herman (Polyansky) and Menas (Shelaev), Archimandrites;
   * Alexander Lebedev, Vladimir Sobolev, Basil Bogoyavlensky, and Alexander Andreyev, Priests.
* New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Bogoslovsky and Nicholas Ushakov, Priests (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Gregory (Vorobiev), Abbot, of Koprino, Yaroslavl (1937)

## Other commemorations

* The Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (commemorating the deliverance from the Poles in 1612)
* Icons of the Mother of God "Andronikos" and "Jacobstadt" (17th century)
* Repose of Monk Joseph the Silent, of Kuban (1925)
* Repose of Metropolitan Nestor of Kamchatka and Petropavlovsk (1962)
* Repose of Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky (1988)
* Uncovering of the relics (2012) of New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Kononov), Bishop of Belgorod (1918) (see also: October 20 )

## Icon gallery

* Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Hierapolis.
* Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop, and Martyrs Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria, at Adrianople.
* The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus.
* St. Mellonius, first Bishop of Rouen.
* New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich.
* Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
* Icon of the Mother of God of Andronicus.
* New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Kononov), Bishop of Belgorod.