October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 9

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 21 by Old Calendarist Orthodox

Saints

• Venerable Pelagia the Penitent of the Mount of Olives (457)
• Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Antioch (303)
• Saint Thaïs (Taisia) of Egypt (4th century)
• St. Anthony, archbishop of Novgorod (1232)
• Saint Dositheus of Verkneostrov in Pskov (1482)
• Saint Tryphon of Vyatka, abbot (1612)
• New Monk-martyr Ignatius of Bulgaria and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)
• New Hieromartyrs Jonah (Lazarev), bishop of Velizhsk, and companions (1937)
• Demetrius (Dobroserdov), archbishop of Mozhaisk, and with him John the deacon, Monk-martyrs Andrew and Pachomius, Nun-martyr Tatiana, and Martyrs Nicholas, Maria and Nadezhda (1937)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar