October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 19

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 31 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke (1st century)
• Hieromartyr Cyriacus (Kyriakos), Bishop of Jerusalem (ca.360-363)^{[1][note 1]}
• Martyr Marinus the Elder of Anazarbus (4th century)
• Saint Julian the Hermit of Mesopotamia (4th century)
• Saint Didymus the Blind of Mesopotamia (4th century)^[4][5]
• Saint Mnason of Cyprus, bishop (1st century)
• St. Joseph, abbot of Volokolamsk (Volotsk) (1515)
• Saint David of Serpukhov, abbot (1520)
• Martyrs Gabriel and Cirmidol of Egypt (1522)
• Saints Symeon, Theodore, and Euphrosynus, monks who found the Icon of the Theotokos in the Great Cave of the Peloponnesus (9th century)
• Saint Peter of Montenegro, metropolitan (1830)

Other Commemorations

• Slaying of Brother José Muñoz-Cortes (in monasticism Monk Ambrose), guardian of the myrrh-streaming “Montreal” Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (1997)

Notes

1. According to the "Dictionary of Christian Biography" (1877), which matches the account in the "Great Synaxaristes" very closely, Hieromartyr Cyriacus of Jerusalem was:

   "Commemorated in the Menologium of Basil II as a man of Jerusalem, who discovered the true cross, and showed it to Helena, and was thereby converted, and became Patriarch of Jerusalem; and was martyred along with his mother by Julian the Apostate, his right hand being first cut off because his writings had made so many converts. He is unknown to history."^[2]

   Note, Cyriarus of Jerusalem is not to be confused with either:

   • Cyriacus of Ancona, celebrated in the West on May 4, but who has either been conflated with Cyriacus of Jerusalem and is the same person; or else, Cyriacus of Ancona is a 2nd-century martyr; see the discussion here.
   • Cyriacus the Anchorite (+557), September 29^[3]

References

1. Ὁ Ἅγιος Κυριάκος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 18 Οκτωβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. Edward Bickersteth Birks (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge), "CYRIACUS (6)". In: Willian Smith and Henry Wace. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines. Volume 1: A-D. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1877. Page 757.
3. Ὁ Ὅσιος Κυριακὸς ὁ Ἀναχωρητὴς. 29 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. October 31 / October 18. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
5. OCTOBER 18. Prologue from Ochrid (Australian and New Zealand Diocese (ROCOR)).

Sources

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