October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 5

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar

Saints

• Hieromartyr Hierotheus of Athens, bishop (1st century)
• St. Theodore the Wonderworker, bishop of Tamassos, Cyprus (2nd century)
• Martyr Peter of Capetolis, bishop of Bostra in Arabia (4th century)
• Martyrs Domnina and her daughters Berenice and Prosdoce of Syria (4th century)
• Martyrs Adauctus and his daughter Callisthene of Ephesus (305, 313)
• Saints Ammon and Paul the Simple of Egypt (350)
• Martyrs Gaius, Faustus, Eusebius, and Chaeremon of Alexandria (3rd century)
• Saint Vladimir Yaroslavich, prince of Novgorod, and his mother Saint Anna (1052)
• Saint Helladius, Onesimus, and Ammon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th-13th centuries
• Saint Stephen Stiljianovitch, despot of Srem, Serbia (1540) and his wife, St. Helen (Elizabeth in monasticism) (c. 1543)
• Saint John Lampadistus of Cyprus (10th century)
• Blessed Elizabeth of Serbia
• Sts. Jonah and Nectarius, monks of Kazan (16th century)
• Hieromartyr Evdemoz I, catholicos of Georgia (1642)

Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics (1595) of Saints Gurias (1563), first archbishop of Kazan, and Barsanuphius, bishop of Tver (1576)
• Repose of the righteous youth Peter Michurin of Kuznetsk (Siberia) (1820)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar