# October 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 24
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 10.

## Saints

* Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 63)
* Venerable Petronius of Egypt, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (346)
* Venerable Ignatios of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (877-878)
* Saint Macarius the Roman, of Mesopotamia.
* Venerable Nicephorus of Charsianos, Constantinople.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saints Servandus and Germanus, sons of St Marcellus of Léon in Spain, martyred in Cadiz while on their way to Tangiers under arrest (c. 305)
* Saint Amon of Toul, Second Bishop of Toul in France, the successor of St Mansuetus (4th century)
* Saint Verus, third Bishop of Salerno in Italy (4th century)
* Saint Severin of Cologne, third known Bishop of Cologne and a prominent opponent of Arianism (c. 403)
* Saint Severinus of Bordeaux (Seurin), Bishop of Bordeaux in France (c. 420)
* Saint Clether (Cleer, Clydog, Scledog, Clitanus or Cleodius), one of the twenty-four children of Saint Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog (c. 520)
* Saint Severinus Boethius, a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher, martyred at Pavia in Italy (524)
* Saint John of Syracuse (Ioannes), Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily from 595 (c. 609)
* Saint Romanus of Rouen, Bishop of Rouen (639)
* Saint Benedict of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Samaria, who fled to Gaul and built a hermitage near Poitiers (c.654)
* Saint Syra, a nun at Faremoutiers Abbey, from where she was asked by Bishop Ragnebaud to become Abbess of Châlons-sur-Marne (c. 660)
* Saint Leothadius (Léothade), Abbot of Moissac Abbey in the south of France, later he became Bishop of Auch (718)
* Saint Oda of Amay, Belgium (Ode)], foundress of churches (723)
* Saint Domitius, hermit near Amiens in France (8th century)
* Saint Elfleda (Aelflead), a princess who lived as an anchoress in Glastonbury Abbey; she was revered by St Dunstan (c. 936)
* Saint Ethelfleda (Elfleda), Abbess of Romsey Abbey (c. 970)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Elisha (Elisæus) of Lauryshava Monastery in Belarus, Igumen (1250)

### New Martys and Confessors

* New Hieromartyr Eusebius (Rozhdestvensky), Archbishop of Shadrinsk (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Vladimir Ambartsumov, Archpriest, of Moscow (1937)
* New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Agafonnikov, Alexander Soloviev, Nicholas Archangelsky, Emilian Goncharov and Sozon Reshetilov, Priests (1937)
* Venerable Euphrosyne Timofeeva (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics (1544) of Blessed James of Borovichi, Novgorod (1540)

## Icon gallery

* Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem.
* Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem.
* St. Ignatios of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (Hagia Sophia).
* St. Ignatios of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople.
* St. Severinus Boethius, teaching his students.
* St. Romanus of Rouen, Bishop of Rouen.
* Blessed James of Borovichi, Novgorod.