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October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
October 14 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective October 14 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Great-Martyrs Nazarius, Celsius, Gervasius and Protasius, of Milan (54-68) (see also: June 19, July 25)
Martyr Peter Apselamus of Eleutheropolis in Palestine (309) (see also: January 12)
Hieromartyr Silvanus of Gaza, Priest, and with him 40 martyrs, by beheading (311) (see also: May 4)
Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma (787) (see also: October 12)
Venerable Parasceva (Petka) of Epibatima Thrace (Parascevi the New), whose relics are in Iași, Romania (11th century)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Callixtus I, Pope of Rome (c. 222)
Saint Gaudentius of Rimini, Bishop of Rimini and Martyr (360)
Saint Donatian of Reims (Donas), Bishop of Rheims (390)
Saint Justus of Lyon, Bishop of Lyon (390) (see also: September 2)
Saint Manehildis (Ménéhould), patroness of Sainte-Menehould (c. 490)
Saint Fortunatus of Todi, a Bishop of Todi in Italy, who saved the city from being sacked by Totila the Goth (537)
Saint Rusticus, Bishop of Trier in Germany, he resigned to live at the hermitage of St Goar (574)
Venerable Mannacus, Abbot at Caer Gybi, Holyhead, Anglesey (6th century)
Saint Angadresima (Angadrisma, Angadreme), Abbess of Oröer-des-Vierges near Beauvais (c. 695)
Saint Burchard of Würzburg, first Bishop of Wurzburg, English missionary to Germany (754)
Saint Bernard of Arce, Confessor (9th century)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Nikola Sviatosha, Prince of Chernigov and Wonderworker, of the Kiev Caves (1143)
Saint Cosmas, founder of Yakhromsk Monastery, Vladimir (1492)
Saint Ignatius the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Mithymna (1566)
New Martys and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Michael Lektorsky, Priest (1921)
New Hieromartyr Ambrose (Polyansky), Bishop of Kamenetz-Podolsk (1932)
New Hieromartyr Peter Lebedev, Priest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Maximilian Marchenko (1938)
Other commemorations
Death of Harold Godwinson, last Orthodox king of England, and those killed with him at the Battle of Hastings (1066)
Commemoration of the Miracle of St. Paraskevi on the island of Chios (1442)
Yakhromsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (15th century)