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14 October

26 commemorations of 14 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 27 October of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Parascheva of Iasi

Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Nikola Sviatosha, Prince of Chernigov and Wonderworker, of the Kiev Caves (1143)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικόλαος ὁ Θαυματουργός καὶ ἁπλὸς ὁ ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ, δούκας Τζερνηγοβιγίας (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Cosmas, founder of Yakhromsk Monastery, Vladimir (1492)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Ignatius the Wonderworker, Metropolitan of Mithymna (1566)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰγνάτιος ὁ Θαυματουργός ὁ Ἀγαλλιανός Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Μηθύμνηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Michael Lektorsky, Priest (1921)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Ambrose (Polyansky), Bishop of Kamenetz-Podolsk (1932)calendar.rop.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Peter Lebedev, Priest (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Maximilian Marchenko (1938)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com

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 Callixtus I, Pope of Rome (c. 222)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Gaudentius of Rimini, Bishop of Rimini and Martyr (360)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Donatian of Reims (Donas), Bishop of Rheims (390)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Justus of Lyon, Bishop of Lyon (390)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Manehildis (Ménéhould), patroness of Sainte-Menehould (c. 490)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Fortunatus of Todi, a Bishop of Todi in Italy, who saved the city from being sacked by Totila the Goth (537)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Rusticus, Bishop of Trier in Germany, he resigned to live at the hermitage of St Goar (574)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Venerable Mannacus, Abbot at Caer Gybi, Holyhead, Anglesey (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Angadresima (Angadrisma, Angadreme), Abbess of Oröer-des-Vierges near Beauvais (c. 695)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Burchard of Würzburg, first Bishop of Wurzburg, English missionary to Germany (754)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Bernard of Arce, Confessor (9th century)Roman Martyrology · 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.

  • Death of Harold Godwinson, last Orthodox king of England, and those killed with him at the Battle of Hastings (1066)
  • Commemoration of the Miracle of St. Paraskevi on the island of Chios (1442)saint.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com
  • Yakhromsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (15th century)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr

The list is October 14 (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.

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