October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 4

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar

Saints

• Hieromartyr Dionysius of Athens, bishop, and with him martyrs Rusticus and Eleutherius (96)
• Saint John the Chozebite, Bishop of Palestine (6th century)
• Blessed Hesychius the Silent (6th century)
• Saint Dionysius of the Kiev Caves, recluse (15th century)
• Russian New martyr Agathangel, Metropolitan of Yaroslavl (1928)
• Martyr Theoctistus
• Martyr Theagenes

Other Commemorations

• Repose of Elder Ieronymos the Cappadocian of Aegina (Ieronymos of Aegina) (1966)^{[note 1]}

Notes

1. Elder Ieronymos the Cappadocian of Aegina was one of the two great Elders of the Jesus Prayer in the twentieth century in the land of Greece, the other being the Elder Joseph the Hesychast of the Holy Mountain. Both were very strong in the interior prayer of the heart.^[1]

References

1. Peter Botsis. Elder Ieronymos of Aegina. Transl. Holy Transfiguration Monastery. Boston, Massachusetts, 2007. p.9. ISBN 9780943405148