October 21
Events Pre-1600
*1096 – A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade.
*1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of A ...
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Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rul ...
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October 23
Events Pre-1600
*4004 BC – James Ussher's proposed creation date of the world according to the Bible.
*42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Mark Antony and Octavian decisively defeat an army under Brutus in the second part of the Batt ...
All fixed
commemorations below celebrated on November 4 by
Orthodox Churches on the
Old Calendar
Old Calendarists (Greek language, Greek: ''palaioimerologitai'' or ''palaioimerologites''), also known as Old Feasters (''palaioeortologitai''), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; ), are traditionalist groups of Easte ...
.
For October 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on
October 9
Events Pre-1600
* 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks.
* 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
* 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
* 1446 &ndash ...
.
From the Synaxarion
*Saint Zacharias the Martyr, Orthodox martyr, by drowning in the sea (either same as, or different from, saint commemorated on October 21st)
Saints
* Holy
Equal-to-the-Apostles
Equal-to-apostles or equal-to-the-apostles (; la, aequalis apostolis; ar, معادل الرسل, ''muʿādil ar-rusul''; ka, მოციქულთასწორი, tr; ro, întocmai cu Apostolii; russian: равноапостольный, ...
Abercius, Bishop and
Wonderworker
Thaumaturgy is the purported capability of a magician to work magic or other paranormal events or a saint to perform miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking.
A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a "thaumaturge", "thauma ...
, of Hierapolis (167)
[October 22 / November 4]
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).[ Συναξαριστής. ]
22 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
* 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
Events Pre-1600
* 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during th ...
'')
* Martyr Theodoret, at Antioch (362)[
* Venerables Lot and Rufus, of Egypt (5th century)][ ]
22/10/2017
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.
* Saint Eulavios, Bishop of Lambousa (''ancient Lapithos'').[
]
Pre-Schism Western saints
* Saint Philip of Fermo, Bishop and martyr of Fermo in Italy (c. 270)[October 22]
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* Saint Mellonius
Saint Mellonius (229-314) was an early 4th-century Bishop of Rotomagus (now Rouen) in the Roman province of Secunda Provincia Lugdunensis (now Normandy in France). He is known only from a 17th-century 'Life' of little historical value, meaning ...
(''Mellon''), first Bishop of Rouen
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Rothomagensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Rouen'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. As one of the fifteen Archbishops of France, the Ar ...
(314)[November 4 / October 22]
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
* Saint Nepotianus, Bishop of Clermont
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Clermont (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Claromontana''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Clermont'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Puy-d ...
in France (c. 388)[
* Saint Verecundus (''Verecondo''), ]Bishop of Verona
235px, The facade of ''Palazzo del Vescovado''
The Diocese of Verona ( la, Dioecesis Veronensis) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in northern Italy. The diocese belongs to the Ecclesiastical Province of Venice. The 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
Bobbio Abbey (Italian: ''Abbazia di San Colombano'') is a monastery founded by Irish Saint Columbanus in 614, around which later grew up the town of Bobbio, in the province of Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is dedicated to Saint Columbanus. I ...
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
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Rhedonensis, Dolensis et Sancti Maclovii''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo''; br, Arc'heskopti Roazhon, Dol ha Sant-Maloù) is a dioces ...
, then became a hermit in Berceto in Italy (c. 730)[
* Saint Benedict of Macerac (''Benoît de Macérac''), a Greek abbot who fled from Petras and settled in Macerac near ]Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...
in France (845)[
* Saints ]Nunilo and Alodia
Saints Nunilo and Alodia (died ''c''. 842/51) were a pair of child martyrs from Huesca. Born of a mixed marriage, they eschewed the Islam of their father in favour of their mother's Christianity. They were executed by the Muslim authorities of Hu ...
, two sisters, a pair of child-martyrs from Huesca
Huesca (; an, Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almo ...
in Spain (851)[
* Saint Bertharius, a ]Benedictine
, image = Medalla San Benito.PNG
, caption = Design on the obverse side of the Saint Benedict Medal
, abbreviation = OSB
, formation =
, motto = (English: 'Pray and Work')
, foun ...
abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The fem ...
of Monte Cassino
Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a rocky hill about southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley, Italy, west of Cassino and at an elevation of . Site of the Roman town of Casinum, it is widely known for its abbey, the first h ...
, martyred together with several of his monks by invading Saracens (884)[
* Saint ]Donatus of Fiesole
Donatus of Fiesole (died 876) was an Irish teacher and poet, and Bishop of Fiesole.
Biography
Donatus was born in Ireland to noble parents towards the end of the eighth century. Despite there being little biographical detail in the tenth/el ...
, 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
Drama ( el, Δράμα ) is a city and municipality in Macedonia, northeastern Greece. Drama is the capital of the regional unit of Drama which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace region. The city (pop. 55.593 2021 censuis the economic ce ...
(1959)[ (''see also: ]October 24
Events Pre-1600
* AD 69 – In the Second Battle of Bedriacum, troops loyal to Vespasian defeat those of Emperor Vitellius.
*1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.
* 1360 – The T ...
- Russian; November 4
Events Pre-1600
*1429 – Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
*1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico.
*1501 – Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's ...
- Greek'')
New Martys and Confessors
* New Hieromartyrs(1937):[
:* Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich;][22 октября по старому стилю / 4 ноября по новому стилю]
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год.
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
:* 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"][ ]
АНДРОНИКОВА (ГРЕЧЕСКАЯ, МОНЕМВАСИЙСКАЯ) ИКОНА БОЖИЕЙ МАТЕРИ
'' Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 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
The Diocese of Belgorod and Stary Oskol (russian: Белгородская и Старооскольская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.
History
The bishop of Belgorod 1244 was a certain Peter who served as vic ...
(1918)[ (''see also: ]October 20
Events Pre-1600
*1568 – The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under William the Silent.
* 1572 – Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the rel ...
'')
Icon gallery
File:Abercius of Hieropolis (Menologion of Basil II) (cropped).jpg, Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles
Equal-to-apostles or equal-to-the-apostles (; la, aequalis apostolis; ar, معادل الرسل, ''muʿādil ar-rusul''; ka, მოციქულთასწორი, tr; ro, întocmai cu Apostolii; russian: равноапостольный, ...
Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker
Thaumaturgy is the purported capability of a magician to work magic or other paranormal events or a saint to perform miracles. It is sometimes translated into English as wonderworking.
A practitioner of thaumaturgy is a "thaumaturge", "thauma ...
, of Hierapolis.
File:Alexander the Bishop at Adrianopolis with Heraclius, Anna, Theodota and Glyceria (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop, and Martyrs Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria, at Adrianople.
File:Seven sleepers russia XIX.jpeg, The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus.
File:Baie chœur 208 Saint-Ouen Rouen Mellon.JPG, St. Mellonius
Saint Mellonius (229-314) was an early 4th-century Bishop of Rotomagus (now Rouen) in the Roman province of Secunda Provincia Lugdunensis (now Normandy in France). He is known only from a 17th-century 'Life' of little historical value, meaning ...
, first Bishop of Rouen
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Rothomagensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Rouen'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. As one of the fifteen Archbishops of France, the Ar ...
.
File:Архиепископ Серафим (Самойлович). Портрет.jpg, New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich.
File:Kazan moscow.jpg, Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
File:Andronik icon.jpg, Icon of the Mother of God of Andronicus.
File:Никодим (Кононов).jpg, New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Kononov), Bishop of Belgorod
The Diocese of Belgorod and Stary Oskol (russian: Белгородская и Старооскольская епархия) is an eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.
History
The bishop of Belgorod 1244 was a certain Peter who served as vic ...
.
Notes
References
Sources
October 22 / November 4
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
November 4 / October 22
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
October 22
OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
* The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 79.
*
'' Orthodoxy in China.
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
* '' The Roman Martyrology.'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 325–326.
* Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 510–511.
Greek Sources
* Great Synaxaristes:
22 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
* Συναξαριστής.
22 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
*
22/10/2017
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.
Russian Sources
*
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
*
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