October 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 25 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For October 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 29.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Epiktitos the Wonderworker,[3][34] and with him several ascetics of the "300 Allemagne Saints", in Cyprus (12th century):[2][note 24]
  • Saints Valantios; Varlaam; Barnabus the Monk; Basil the Bishop; George (Vavatsiniotis); George (Epitideiotis); George (Perachoritis); George (Salamanis); Dimitrianos the Bishop; Irenikos (or Arniakos); Elpidios; and Epahroditos.[3][37]
  • Venerable Saints Amphilochius (1452),[17][38] Macarius (1480),[39] and Tarasius (1440),[40] Abbots, and Theodosius, monk (15th century), of Glushitsa Monastery, Vologda, disciples of St. Dionysius of Glushitsa.[1][16][note 25]
  • Saint Arsenius, Archimandrite, of Svyatogorsk Monastery (1859)[1]
  • Saint Euphrosyne (Mezenova) the Faster, Schema-Abbess, of Siberia (1918)[1][16]

New Martys and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr John Letnikov (1930)[16][17]
  • New Hieromartyr Juvenal (Maslovsky), Archbishop of Ryazan (1937)[1]
  • New Hieromartyr Lawrence (Levchenko), Hieromonk, of Optina Monastery (1937)[1][16][17]
  • New Hieromartyr Alexander Pozdeyevsky, Priest (1940)[16][17]
  • New Hiero-confessor Nicholas (Mogilevsky), Metropolitan of Alma-Ata (1955)[1][16][17][note 26]

Other commemorations

Notes

References

Sources

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Russian Sources