October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 9.

From the Synaxarion

 * Saint Zacharias the Martyr, Orthodox martyr, by drowning in the sea (either same as, or different from, saint commemorated on October 21)

Saints

 * Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Hierapolis (167)
 * 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 )
 * Martyr Theodoret, at Antioch (362)
 * Venerables Lot and Rufus, of Egypt (5th century)
 * Saint Eulavios, Bishop of Lambousa (ancient Lapithos).

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Philip of Fermo, Bishop and martyr of Fermo in Italy (c. 270)
 * Saint Mellonius (Mellon), first Bishop of Rouen (314)
 * Saint Nepotianus, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 388)
 * Saint Verecundus (Verecondo), 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 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, then became a hermit in Berceto in Italy (c. 730)
 * Saint Benedict of Massérac (Benoît de Macérac), a Greek abbot who fled from Petras and settled in Macerac near Nantes in France (845)
 * Saints Nunilo and Alodia, two sisters, a pair of child-martyrs from Huesca in Spain (851)
 * Saint Bertharius, a Benedictine abbot of Monte Cassino, martyred together with several of his monks by invading Saracens (884)
 * Saint Donatus of Fiesole, 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 (1959) (see also: October 24 - Russian; November 4 - Greek)

New Martys and Confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs(1937):
 * Seraphim (Samoilovich), Archbishop of Uglich;
 * 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"  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 (1918)  (see also: October 20 )