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October 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
October 15 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 15 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Martyrs Sarbelus (Thathuil) and his sister Bebaia, of Edessa (98-138) (see also: January 29 )
Hieromartyr Lucian of Antioch, Presbyter of Greater Antioch (312)
Venerable Barsus the Confessor, Bishop of Edessa (378)
St. Theophilus I of Alexandria, 23rd Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (d. 412).
Saint Sabinus, Bishop of Catania, Wonderworker (760)
Venerable Euthymius the New, of Thessalonica, Confessor (889) (see also: January 4)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Agileus, martyred in Carthage in North Africa, (c. 300)
Saint Aurelia of Strasbourg (Alsace, Gaul) (c. 383)
Saint Severus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany, Confessor (c. 455)
Saint Antiochus of Lyon (Andeol), Bishop of Lyon (5th century)
Saint Cannatus (Canus Natus), Bishop of Marseilles in France after St Honoratus (5th century)
Saint Fortunatus, a martyr in Rome (537?)
Saint Leonard of Vandœuvre, a hermit who founded Vandoeuvre, now Saint-Léonard-des-Bois, near Le Mans in France (c. 570)
Saint Thecla, Abbess, of Ochsenfurt, Germany (c. 790)
Saint Odilo, a monk at Gorze Abbey in Lorraine in France, who became Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium (c. 954)
Saint Callistus, martyr (1003)
Saint Bruno of Merseburg (Bruno-Boniface), Archbishop of Mersburg, martyred by the heathen Prussians (1009)
Saint Willa, a nun at Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria who reposed as an anchoress (c. 1050)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Hieromartyr Lucian, Hieromonk of the Kiev Caves (1243)
Saint John, Bishop of Suzdal (1373)
Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal (1385)
Saint Magdalena of Mălainița (Măndalina Milenco), a worthy and industrious believer of the Romanian community from Mălainița, of the Timoc Vicariate in Serbia (1962)
New Martys and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Symeon Konyukhov, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Valerian Novitsky, Priest, of Telyadovich (1930)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Kasatkin, Priest (1942)
New Hiero-confessor Athanasius (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov (1962)
Synaxis of the 23 New Hieromartyrs of the Minsk Diocese of Belorussia (1930-1950):
Archimandrite: Seraphim (Shakhmut), of Zhyrovichy Monastery (1945);
Priests: Alexander Shalai (1937); Vladimir Zubkovich (1938); Vasily Izmailov (1930); Vladimir Pasternatsky (1938); Vladimir Khirasko (1932); Dimitry Pavsky (1937); John Voronet (1937); Leonid Biryukovich (1937); Matthew Kritsuk (1950); Michael Novitsky (1935); Michael Plyshevsky (1937); Sergius Rodakovsky (1933); Valerian Novitsky (1930); Vladimir Taliush (1933); Vladimir Khrischanovich (1933); Dimitry Plyshevsky (1938); John Vecherko (1933); John Pankratovich (1937); Nicholas Matskevich (1937); Peter Grudinsky (1930); Porphyrius Rubanovich (1943); and
Deacon: Nicholas Vasyukovich (1937).
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who Ripens the Grain" / "The Grower of Crops" (19th century)