October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Oct. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 18

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 30 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Holy Prophet Hosea (820 BC)
• Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian in Cilicia (4th century), and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius.
• Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475)
• Monk-martyr Andrew of Crete (767)
• St. Joseph (Jandieri) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770)
• New Hieromartyr Alexander, Archbishop of Semipalatinsk (1937)

[edit] Other Commemorations

• Translation of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), bishop of Kition in Cyprus