October 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 24

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 10.

Saints

 * Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem (c. 63)
 * Venerable Petronius of Egypt, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (346)
 * Venerable Ignatios of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (877-878)
 * Saint Macarius the Roman, of Mesopotamia.
 * Venerable Nicephorus of Charsianos, Constantinople.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Servandus and Germanus, sons of St Marcellus of Léon in Spain, martyred in Cadiz while on their way to Tangiers under arrest (c. 305)
 * Saint Amon of Toul, Second Bishop of Toul in France, the successor of St Mansuetus (4th century)
 * Saint Verus, third Bishop of Salerno in Italy (4th century)
 * Saint Severin of Cologne, third known Bishop of Cologne and a prominent opponent of Arianism (c. 403)
 * Saint Severinus of Bordeaux (Seurin), Bishop of Bordeaux in France (c. 420)
 * Saint Clether (Cleer, Clydog, Scledog, Clitanus or Cleodius), one of the twenty-four children of Saint Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog (c. 520)
 * Saint Severinus Boethius, a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher, martyred at Pavia in Italy (524)
 * Saint John of Syracuse (Ioannes), Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily from 595 (c. 609)
 * Saint Romanus of Rouen, Bishop of Rouen (639)
 * Saint Benedict of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Samaria, who fled to Gaul and built a hermitage near Poitiers (c.654)
 * Saint Syra, a nun at Faremoutiers Abbey, from where she was asked by Bishop Ragnebaud to become Abbess of Châlons-sur-Marne (c. 660)
 * Saint Leothadius (Léothade), Abbot of Moissac Abbey in the south of France, later he became Bishop of Auch (718)
 * Saint Oda of Amay, Belgium (Ode)], foundress of churches (723)
 * Saint Domitius, hermit near Amiens in France (8th century)
 * Saint Elfleda (Aelflead), a princess who lived as an anchoress in Glastonbury Abbey; she was revered by St Dunstan (c. 936)
 * Saint Ethelfleda (Elfleda), Abbess of Romsey Abbey (c. 970)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Elisha (Elisæus) of Lauryshava Monastery in Belarus, Igumen (1250)

New Martys and Confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Eusebius (Rozhdestvensky), Archbishop of Shadrinsk (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Vladimir Ambartsumov, Archpriest, of Moscow (1937)
 * New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Agafonnikov, Alexander Soloviev, Nicholas Archangelsky, Emilian Goncharov and Sozon Reshetilov, Priests (1937)
 * Venerable Euphrosyne Timofeeva (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics (1544) of Blessed James of Borovichi, Novgorod (1540)