October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 19

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 31 by Old Calendarists

Contents

Saints

Other Commemorations

Notes

  1. ^ According to the "Dictionary of Christian Biography" (1877), which matches the account in the "Great Synaxaristes" very closely, Hieromartyr Cyriacus of Jerusalem was:
    "Commemorated in the Menology of Basil as a man of Jerusalem, who discovered the true cross, and showed it to Helena, and was thereby converted, and became Patriarch of Jerusalem; and was martyred along with his mother by Julian the Apostate, his right hand being first cut off because his writings had made so many converts. He is unknown to history."[2]
    Note, Cyriarus of Jerusalem is not to be confused with either:

References

  1. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Κυριάκος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 18 Οκτωβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  2. ^ Edward Bickersteth Birks (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge). "CYRIACUS (6)". In: Willian Smith and Henry Wace. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines. Volume 1: A-D. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1877. Page 757.
  3. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Κυριακὸς ὁ Ἀναχωρητὴς. 29 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

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