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October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
October 17 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 17 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Prophet Hosea (Osee) (820 BC) (see also: December 4, July 4)
Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian, and their brothers, martyrs Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius, and 15 Holy Unmercenaries with them, in Cilicia (4th century)
Saints Antigonus, Loukianos, Terentius, Nicomedes and Theophanis.
Saints Isidora and Neophyte.
Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475) (see also: August 28)
Hieromartyr Andrew of Crete, in "the Judgment" (767) (see also: October 21)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Ignatius of Antioch, called 'the God-bearer', Bishop of Antioch (107) (see also: December 20 - East)
Saint Solina, born in Gascony in France, she escaped to Chartres to avoid marriage to a pagan, was beheaded in Chartres (c. 290)
Saint Regulus (Rule), by tradition an abbot who brought relics of St Andrew from Greece to Scotland, leading to St Andrew's adoption as the patron-saint of Scotland (4th century)
Saint Florentius of Orange, the eighth Bishop of Orange in the south of France (c. 526)
Saint Victor of Capua, consecrated Bishop of Capua in Italy in 541 and a prolific writer (554)
Saint Colmán of Kilroot, a disciple of St Ailbe of Emly and Bishop of Kilroot near Carrickfergus in Ireland (6th century)
Saint Louthiern, born in Ireland, he is the patron-saint of St Ludgran in Cornwall (6th century)
Martyrs Æthelred and Æthelberht, Princes of Kent (c. 640)
Saint Berarius, Bishop of Le Mans in France (c. 680)
Saint Anstrudis of Laon (688)
Saint Nothhelm, eleventh Archbishop of Canterbury and a friend of St Bede and St Boniface (739)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Martyr Kozman (Kosmas), of Georgia.
Venerable Anthony, founder of Leokhnov Monastery, Novgorod (1611)
Saint Ioseb (Jandierishvili) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770)
New Martys and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs Neophyt Lyubimov and Anatoly Ivanovsky, Priests (1918)
New Monk-martyrs Jacinthus Pitatelev and Callistus Oparin, of the St. Nicholas Monastery, Verkhoturye (1918)
New Hieromartyr Alexander (Shchukin), Archbishop of Semipalatinsk (1937)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics (695) of St. Etheldreda, Royal Abbess of Ely (679) (see also: June 23 )
Translation of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), Bishop of Kition in Cyprus (1st century)
Icon of the Mother of God "In Giving Birth, you Preserved your Virginity" (1827)
Icon of the Mother of God the "Deliveress" / Rescuer (1889) (see also: October 1, October 28 and April 4)
Synaxis of the Patron Saints of the Holy Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, in Greece.
Repose of Elder Athanasius (Zakharov) of Ploshchansk Hermitage (1825), disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky).
Repose of Nun Alypia, Fool-for-Christ, of Goloseyevo, Kiev (1988)