3 October
25 commemorations of 3 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 16 October of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Dionysius the Areopagite
Saints
- Hieromartyr Dionysius of Athens, Bishop of Athens, and with him the priest Rusticus and the deacon Eleutherius, martyrs (96)Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτηςsynaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Damaris of Athens, a disciple of St. Dionysius of Athens (1st century)saint.gr · ocafs.oca.org
- Hieromartyrs Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, and eight other martyrs including the Deacons Gaius, Faustus, Eusebius and Chaeremon (c. 265)Ὁ Ἅγιος Διονύσιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶ 8 Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Theoctistus, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Θεόκτιστος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Martyr Theagenes, by fireὉ Ἅγιος Θεαγένης ἢ Θεογένης ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Martyr Theoteknos, by stoningὉ Ἅγιος Θεότεκνος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Saint AdauctusὉ Ἅγιος Ἀδαῦκτοςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint John the Chozebite, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (532)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Χοζεβίτης ἐπίσκοπος Καισαρείαςsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Blessed Hesychius the Silent, of Mt. Horeb (6th century)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Dionysius of the Kiev Caves, recluse (15th century)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hiero-confessor Agathangelus (Preobrazhensky), Metropolitan of Yaroslavl (1928)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Candidus, a martyr in Rome, buried on the Esquiline Hillorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maximian, a convert from Donatism, he became Bishop of Bagaia in Numidia in North Africa (404)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cyprian of Toulon, a monk at St Victor at Marseilles and Bishop of Toulon in France (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyrs Hewald the White (Ewald the Fair) and Hewald the Black (Ewald the Dark), at Cologne (c. 695)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Widradus (Waré), restorer of the monastery of Flavigny near Dijon in France, also founded the monastery of Saulieu (747)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Utto, founder of Metten Abbey (of the Benedictine Order) in Bavaria in Germany (829)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gérard of Brogne, Abbot of Brogne (959)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Froilan, Bishop of Léon (1006)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Trubchevsk Icon of the Mother of God (1765), located in the Troitse-Scanov Conventpravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru
- Repose of Blessed Olga, Fool-for-Christ, of Bogdanoya Bari and St. Petersburg (1960)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Saint Ieronymos the Cappadocian of Aegina (Jerome of Aegina) (1966)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Uncovering of the relics (1988) of St. Joseph (Litovkin), Elder of Optina Monastery (1911)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople resolved on October 3, 2019, to glorify seven New Martyrs of Kastoria
- New Martyr Markos Markoulis of Kleisoura, Kastoria, hanged in Argos Orestiko (1598)
- New Martyr Ioannis Noultzos, martyred together with his brother and brother-in-law in Kastoria (1696)
- New Martyr George of Kastoria, martyred by the Hagarenes in the Acarnania region
- New Hieromartyr Vasilios Kalapaliki, priest of Chiliodendro, Kastoria (') (1902)
- New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis), Protosyncellus of Metropolitan Germanos Karavangelis (1921)
The list is October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.