15 October
28 commemorations of 15 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 28 October of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Martyrs Sarbelus (Thathuil) and his sister Bebaia, of Edessa (98-138)orthochristian.com · oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Lucian of Antioch, Presbyter of Greater Antioch (312)Ὁ Ἅγιος Λουκιανὸς ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Πρεσβύτερος τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Ἀντιοχείαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Barsus the Confessor, Bishop of Edessa (378)Ὁ Ὅσιος Βάρσοςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- St. Theophilus I of Alexandria, 23rd Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (d. 412)newadvent.org
- Saint Sabinus, Bishop of Catania, Wonderworker (760)oca.org · orthodoxengland.org.uk · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Venerable Euthymius the New, of Thessalonica, Confessor (889)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐθύμιος ὁ Νέοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Hieromartyr Lucian, Hieromonk of the Kiev Caves (1243)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint John, Bishop of Suzdal (1373)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Dionysius, Archbishop of Suzdal (1385)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Magdalena of Mălainița (Măndalina Milenco), a worthy and industrious believer of the Romanian community from Mălainița, of the Timoc Vicariate in Serbia (1962)orthochristian.com · doxologia.ro · mystagogyresourcecenter.com
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Symeon Konyukhov, Priest (1918)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Valerian Novitsky, Priest, of Telyadovich (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius Kasatkin, Priest (1942)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hiero-confessor Athanasius (Sakharov), Bishop of Kovrov (1962)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the 23 New Hieromartyrs of the Minsk Diocese of Belorussia (1930-1950)
- Archimandrite: Seraphim (Shakhmut), of Zhyrovichy Monastery (1945)
- Priests: Alexander Shalai (1937); Vladimir Zubkovich (1938); Vasily Izmailov (1930); Vladimir Pasternatsky (1938); Vladimir Khirasko (1932); Dimitry Pavsky (1937); John Voronet (1937); Leonid Biryukovich (1937); Matthew Kritsuk (1950); Michael Novitsky (1935); Michael Plyshevsky (1937); Sergius Rodakovsky (1933); Valerian Novitsky (1930); Vladimir Taliush (1933); Vladimir Khrischanovich (1933); Dimitry Plyshevsky (1938); John Vecherko (1933); John Pankratovich (1937); Nicholas Matskevich (1937); Peter Grudinsky (1930); Porphyrius Rubanovich (1943); and
- Deacon: Nicholas Vasyukovich (1937)
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 Agileus, martyred in Carthage in North Africa (c. 300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Aurelia of Strasbourg (Alsace, Gaul) (c. 383)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Severus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany, Confessor (c. 455)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Antiochus of Lyon (Andeol), Bishop of Lyon (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cannatus (Canus Natus), Bishop of Marseilles in France after St Honoratus (5th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fortunatus, a martyr in Rome (537?)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Leonard of Vandœuvre, a hermit who founded Vandoeuvre, now Saint-Léonard-des-Bois, near Le Mans in France (c. 570)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Thecla, Abbess, of Ochsenfurt, Germany (c. 790)Roman Martyrology · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Odilo, a monk at Gorze Abbey in Lorraine in France, who became Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium (c. 954)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Callistus, martyr (1003)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bruno of Merseburg (Bruno-Boniface), Archbishop of Mersburg, martyred by the heathen Prussians (1009)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Willa, a nun at Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg in Austria who reposed as an anchoress (c. 1050)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.
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who Ripens the Grain" / "The Grower of Crops" (19th century)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
The list is October 15 (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.