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 ...

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 ...

October 22 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, an ecumenical council. * 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō (no ...

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 3 by

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es 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 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on

October 8 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. * 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. * 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger preven ...

Saints

* Hieromartyr Socrates, Priest, and Martyr Theodote, of

Ancyra Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the list of national capitals, capital of Turkey. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center ...

(c. 230)October 21 / November 3
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής.
21 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). * Martyrs Dasius, Gaius, and Zoticus at

Nicomedia Nicomedia (; el, Νικομήδεια, ''Nikomedeia''; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire (chosen by the emperor Diocletia ...

(303) * Saint Darius, Zosimus, Paul, and Secundus, martyrs of Nicaea by Diocletian (4th century) * Martyr Azes, by fire.
21/10/2017
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.November 3 / October 21
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). * Saints Plantinos (''Platinus''), Irene and Marina of Raithu. * Venerable

Hilarion Hilarion the Great (291–371) was an anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251–356). While St Anthony is considered to have established Christian monasticism in the Egyptian d ...

the Great, of Gaza (371) * The 63 Martyrs of Jerusalem (724):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. 78. :* Pegasus, Neophytus, Acacius, Dorotheus, Stephen, Dometius, Herman, Dionysius, Epiphanius, Stratonicus, Leontius, Emmanuel, Theophilus, Elias, John, Samuel, Eulampius, Alexius, Photius, Eutrepius, Methodius, Chariton, Theophylactus, Anastasius, Andronicus, Symeon, Theoktistus, Romanus, Paul, Agathonicus, Minas, Athanasius, Jacob, Nicephorus, Porphyrius, Timothy, Irenarchus, Auxentius, Joseph, Gregory, Callinicus, Aaron, Cyriacus, Theodosius, Eustathius, Isaac, Alexander, Eleutherius, Adrian, Christophor, Antiochus, Isidore, Parthenius, Sergius, Euplus, Ignatius, Theophanes, Cyril, Zachariah, and Anthimus. * Martyrs

Andrew Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in List of countries where English is an official language, English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is freq ...

, Stephen, Paul and Peter, under

Constantine V Copronymus Constantine V ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντῖνος, Kōnstantīnos; la, Constantinus; July 718 – 14 September 775), was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able ...

(c. 741-775) * Venerable martyr Zacharias, by drowning in the sea. * Venerable Baruch, reposed in peace. * Venerable Phillip. * Venerable Jacob,

Oeconomus ''Oikonomos'' ( el, οἰκονόμος, from - 'house' and - 'rule, law'), latinized œconomus, oeconomus, or economos, was an Ancient Greek word meaning "household manager." In Byzantine times, the term was used as a title of a manager or tr ...

Batheos Rhyakos Monastery The Monastery of the Transfiguration of Christ the Saviour ( el, Μονή Μεταμορφόσεως Σωτήρος Χριστού), commonly known as the Soteros or Saviour Monastery (Μονή Σωτήρος, tr, Aya Sotiri manastırı) or as t ...

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint

Asterius of Ostia Saint Asterius of Ostia (d. 3rd century AD) was a martyred priest. Information on this saint is based on the apocryphal ''Acts of Saint Callixtus''.Sabine Baring-Gould, ''The Lives of the Saints''. Vol. 2. (J. Hodges, 1877). Digitized June 6, ...

, martyred priest (c. 223)October 21
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint Viator of Lyons, hermit (389). * Saint

Ursula of Cologne Saint Ursula (Latin for 'little female bear', german: link=no, Heilige Ursula) is a legendary Romano-British Christian saint who died on 21 October 383. Her feast day in the pre-1970 General Roman Calendar is 21 October. There is little inf ...

and her companions, martyrs at Cologne (c. 451)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. 508-510. * Saint Cilinia, the mother of St Principius,

Bishop of Soissons The Roman Catholic Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin (Latin: ''Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Ch ...

and St Remigius, Bishop of Rheims (c. 458) * Saint Fintan Munnu (''Finian''), of Teachmunnu, Ireland (635) * Saint

Tuda of Lindisfarne Tuda of Lindisfarne (died 664), also known as Saint Tuda, was appointed to succeed Colman as Bishop of Lindisfarne. He served for less than a year. Although raised in Ireland, he was a staunch supporter of Roman Roman or Romans most often refe ...

Bishop of Lindisfarne The Bishop of Durham is the Church of England, Anglican bishop responsible for the Diocese of Durham in the Province of York. The diocese is one of the oldest in England and its bishop is a member of the House of Lords. Paul Butler (bishop), Pau ...

(c. 664) * Saint Condedus (''Condé, Condède''), a hermit at Fontaine-de-Saint-Valéry in the north of France (c. 690) * Saint

Wendelin of Trier Saint Wendelin of Trier ( la, Vendelinus; 554 - 617 AD) was a hermit and abbot. Although not listed in the Roman Martyrology, his cultus is wide-spread in German-speaking areas. He is a patron of country folk and herdsmen. He is honored on O ...

(''Wendolinus, Wendel''), a shepherd who was famous for his holiness and is venerated at St Wendel on the Nahe in the west of Germany (7th century) * Saint Malathgen of Cluain-Edneach, Ireland, Abbot (767) * Saint Hugh of Ambronay, third Abbot of Ambronay Abbey near

Belley Belley () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. History Belley is of Roman origin, and in the 5th century became an episcopal see. It was the capital of the province of Bugey, which was a dependency of Savoy till 1601, when i ...

in France (9th-10th centuries) * Saint Maurontus, Abbot of St Victor at Marseilles, he became bishop of the same city around 767 (c. 804)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Hilarion of Kiev, the first non-Greek

Metropolitan of Kiev Metropolitan of Kyiv is an episcopal title that has been created with varying suffixes at multiple times in different Christian churches, though always maintaining the name of the metropolitan city — Kiev. The title takes its name from the city ...

(c. 1055) * Venerable Hilarion the Schemamonk of the

Kiev Caves Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra ( uk, Києво-Печерська лавра, translit=Kyievo-Pecherska lavra, russian: Киево-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Ea ...

(11th century)21 октября по старому стилю / 3 ноября по новому стилю
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год. * Venerables Barnabas and Hilarion the

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 ...

s, of Peristerona, Cyprus, of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century) * Venerable Philotheus of Neapolis and Mt. Athos (14th century) * Saints Theophilus and James, monks of Konevits, founders of Dormition Monastery at Omutch,

Pskov Pskov ( rus, Псков, a=pskov-ru.ogg, p=pskof; see also names in other languages) is a city in northwestern Russia and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, located about east of the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population ...

(c. 1412) * Saint Hilarion, founder of Pskovoezersk Monastery, Gdov (1476) * Saints Bessarion (Sarai), Hieromonk (1745), and Sophronius of Ciorara, monk (c. 1765), Confessors, and St. Oprea of

Săliște Săliște (german: Großendorf or ''Selischte''; hu, Szelistye) is a town in Sibiu County, in the centre of Romania, west of the county capital, Sibiu. Declared a town in 2003, it is the main locality in the Mărginimea Sibiului area. Geograph ...

(18th century), martyred by the Latins in Romania. * New Martyr John of

Monemvasia Monemvasia ( el, Μονεμβασιά, Μονεμβασία, or ) is a town and municipality in Laconia, Greece. The town is located on a small island off the east coast of the Peloponnese, surrounded by the Myrtoan Sea. The island is connected t ...

Peloponnesus The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridge which ...

, at

Larissa Larissa (; el, Λάρισα, , ) is the capital and largest city of the Thessaly region in Greece. It is the fifth-most populous city in Greece with a population of 144,651 according to the 2011 census. It is also capital of the Larissa regiona ...

(1773) * Hiero-confessors John of Galёs, and Moses (Macinic), Priests, of Sibiel, Transylvania (18th century)

New Martyrs and Confessors

* New Hieromartyr Alexis (Bui), Bishop of Voronezh (1930) (''see also:

February 12 Events Pre-1600 *1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. *1429 – English forces under ...

'') * New Hieromartyrs Paulinus (Kroshechkin), Archbishop of

Mogilev Mogilev (russian: Могилёв, Mogilyov, ; yi, מאָלעוו, Molev, ) or Mahilyow ( be, Магілёў, Mahilioŭ, ) is a city in eastern Belarus, on the Dnieper River, about from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from the bor ...

, and Arcadius (Yershov), Bishop of

Ekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administrat ...

, and with them Anatole Levitsky and Nicander Chernelevsky, Priests, and New Martyr Cyprian Annikov (1937) * New Hieromartyr Damian (Voskresensky), Archbishop of

Kursk Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...

(1937) * New Hieromartyrs Constantine Chekalov, Sergius Smirnov, Basil Nikolsky, Theodore Belyaev, Vladimir Vvedensky, Nicholas Raevsky, John Kozyrev, Basil Kozyrev, Alexander Bogoyavlensky, Demetrius Troitsky, and Alexis Moskvin, Priests, and Sergius Kazansky and John Melnitsky, Deacons, all of the Tver diocese (1937) * New Hieromartyrs Neophytus (Osipov), Archimandrite, of Moscow, and Sophronius (Nesmeyanov), Hieromonk, of Lozeva, Tver (1937)3 ноября (21 октября)
Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). * New Woman-Hieromartyr Pelagia Testovoy (1944)

Other commemorations

* Translation of the relics of St. Christodoulos the Wonderworker of Patmos (1093) * Translation of the relics (1206) of St. Hilarion, Bishop of Meglin, Bulgaria (1164)
Translation of the relics of St Hilarion the Bishop of Meglin in Bulgaria
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints. * Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Herman (Bogdanov) of New Valaam Monastery in Siberia (1938) * Repose of Schema-Nun Seraphima (Bobkova) of Shamordino Convent (1990)

Icon gallery

File:Hilarion the Great (Menologion of Basil II) (cropped).jpg, Venerable

the Great. File:Dasias, Caius and Zoticus (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Martyrs Dasius, Gaius, and Zoticus, at

. File:Carlo Crivelli 041.jpg, St.

File:Sainte Cilinia mère de Rémi Montanus 595.JPG, Saint Cilinia of Laon. File:Pfärrenbach Wandmalerei Hl Wendelin.jpg, St.

. File:Illarion ikona.jpg, Saint Hilarion of Kiev, Metropolitan of Kiev. File:Visarion Oprea Sofronie.jpg, Sts. Bessarion (Sarai) and Sophronius of Ciorara, Confessors, and St. Oprea of

. File:Епископ Алексий (Буй).jpg, New Hieromartyr Alexis (Bui), Bishop of Voronezh. File:Paulinus (Kroshechkin).jpg, New Hieromartyr Paulinus (Kroshechkin), Archbishop of

. File:Епископ Екатеринбургский Аркадий (Ершов).jpg, New Hieromartyr Arcadius (Yershov), Bishop of

. File:Архиепископ Дамиан (Воскресенский).jpg, New Hieromartyr Damian (Voskresensky), Archbishop of

Notes

References

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October 21 / November 3
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
November 3 / October 21
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
October 21
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. 78. *

'' 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. p. 325. * 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. 508–510. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
21 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
21 Οκτωβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). *
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'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *

Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год. {{DEFAULTSORT:October 21 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) October in the Eastern Orthodox calendar