October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 11.

Saints

 * Martyr Sebastiani (1st century)
 * Martyrs Sotiricus and Valentinos, from Asia Minor, by being dragged over sharp stones.
 * Hieromartyr Akakios the Presbyter, by the sword.
 * Martyr Nerdonus, by fire.
 * Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople (447)
 * Great-martyr Arethas of Omir and 4,299 martyrs with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters (523)
 * A holy woman martyr and her child, together with Martyr Arethas of Omir and his companions (523)
 * Blessed Elesbaan (Caleb), King of Ethiopia (553-555)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Felix (Africanus), Audactus (Adauctus), Januarius, Fortunatus and Septimus (303)
 * Saint Evergislus (Ebregesilus, Eberigisil), a Bishop of Cologne in Germany, martyred by heathen robbers (5th century)
 * Saint Maglorius of Sark (Maelor), Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany (575)
 * Saint Senoch the Healer, Abbot, of Tours, Gaul (576)
 * Saint Cadfarch, a disciple of St Iltyd, he founded churches in Penegoes and Abererch in Wales (6th century)
 * Saint Martin of Vertou, founder of the monastery of Vertou near Nantes, also of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes and other monasteries (601)
 * Saint Marcius (Mark, Martin), a hermit at Montecassino in Italy (c. 679)
 * Saint Fromundus (Frodemundus), Monk, Abbot and then Bishop of Coutances in France (c. 690)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Arethas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves (1190)
 * Venerable Sisoes of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
 * Venerable Theophilus the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (12th-13th century)
 * Saint Athanasius I of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (1311)  (see also: October 28)
 * Saint John, recluse, of the Pskov Caves (1616)
 * Venerable Zosima (Verkhovsky), Elder, of Siberia (1833)
 * Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece (1959) (see also: November 4 - Greek)

New Martys and Confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Lawrence (Knyazev), Bishop of Balakhnin, and Alexis Porfiriev, Archpriest, and with them New Martyr Alexis Neidhardt  (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Arethas (Mitrenin), Hieromonk of Valaam (1932),
 * New Hieromartyrs John Smirnov and Nicholas Nikolsky, Priests (1937)
 * New Martyr Peter Bogorodsky, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos The "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (Moscow) (1688)
 * Repose of Blessed Eudocia of Ryazan (1890)
 * Repose of Hieroschemamonk Barsanuphius of Valaam (1910)