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October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
October 24 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 24 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Martyr Sebastiani (1st century)
Martyrs Mark, Soterichos and Valentina, from Asia Minor, by being dragged over sharp stones.
Hieromartyr Akakios the Presbyter, by the sword.
Martyr Nerdonus, by fire.
Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople (447)
Great-martyr Arethas of Omir and 4,299 martyrs with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters (523) (see also: November 24.)
A holy woman martyr and her child, together with Martyr Arethas of Omir and his companions (523)
Blessed Elesbaan (Caleb), King of Ethiopia (553-555)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Martyrs Felix (Africanus), Audactus (Adauctus), Januarius, Fortunatus and Septimus (303)
Saint Evergislus (Ebregesilus, Eberigisil), a Bishop of Cologne in Germany, martyred by heathen robbers (5th century)
Saint Maglorius of Sark (Maelor), Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany (575)
Saint Senoch the Healer, Abbot, of Tours, Gaul (576)
Saint Cadfarch, a disciple of St Iltyd, he founded churches in Penegoes and Abererch in Wales (6th century)
Saint Martin of Vertou, founder of the monastery of Vertou near Nantes, also of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes and other monasteries (601)
Saint Marcius (Mark, Martin), a hermit at Montecassino in Italy (c. 679)
Saint Fromundus (Frodemundus), Monk, Abbot and then Bishop of Coutances in France (c. 690)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Arethas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves (1190)
Venerable Sisoes of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
Venerable Theophilus the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (12th-13th century)
Saint Athanasius I of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (1311) (see also: October 28)
Saint John, recluse, of the Pskov Caves (1616)
Venerable Zosima (Verkhovsky), Elder, of Siberia (1833)
Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece (1959) (see also: November 4 - Greek)
New Martys and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Lawrence (Knyazev), Bishop of Balakhnin, and Alexis Porfiriev, Archpriest, and with them New Martyr Alexis Neidhardt (1918)
New Hieromartyr Arethas (Mitrenin), Hieromonk of Valaam (1932),
New Hieromartyrs John Smirnov and Nicholas Nikolsky, Priests (1937)
New Martyr Peter Bogorodsky, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos The "Joy of All Who Sorrow" (Moscow) (1688)
Repose of Blessed Eudocia of Ryazan (1890)
Repose of Hieroschemamonk Barsanuphius of Valaam (1910)