October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 18

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 30 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Prophet Hosea (820 BC)
• Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian in Cilicia (4th century), and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius.
• Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475)
• Monk-martyr Andrew of Crete (767)
• St. Anthony, abbot, of Leokhnov (Novgorod) (1611)
• St. Joseph (Jandieri) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770)
• New Hieromartyr Alexander (Shchukin), Archbishop of Semipalatinsk (1937)
• Martyrs Æthelred and Æthelberht, princes of Kent (c. 640)

Other Commemorations

• Translation of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), bishop of Kition in Cyprus
• Repose of Elder Athanasius (Zakharov) of Ploshchansk Hermitage (1825), disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky)
• Repose of Nun Alypia, fool-for-Christ, of Goloseyevo (Kiev) (1988)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar