17 October
30 commemorations of 17 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 30 October of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Lazarus of the Four DaysSt. Andrew in Krisei (d. 767)
Saints
- Prophet Hosea (Osee) (820 BC)Ὁ Προφήτης Ὠσηέorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian, and their brothers, martyrs Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius, and 15 Holy Unmercenaries with... (4th century)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κοσμᾶς, Δαμιανός, Λεόντιος, Ἄνθιμος καὶ Εὐπρέπιος οἱ Ἀνάργυροι καὶ οἱ σὺν αυτῶν 15 Ἀνάργυροιsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Antigonus, Loukianos, Terentius, Nicomedes and TheophanisΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀντίγονος, Λουκιανός, Τερέντιος, Νικομήδης καὶ Θεοφάνηςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Saints Isidora and NeophyteΟἱ Ἁγίες Ἰσιδώρα καὶ Νεοφύτηsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Andrew of Crete, in "the Judgment" (767)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνδρέας ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Martyr Kozman (Kosmas), of GeorgiaὉ Ἅγιος Κοσμᾶς ὁ ἐν Γεωργίᾳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Anthony, founder of Leokhnov Monastery, Novgorod (1611)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Ioseb (Jandierishvili) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Neophyt Lyubimov and Anatoly Ivanovsky, Priests (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Monk-martyrs Jacinthus Pitatelev and Callistus Oparin, of the St. Nicholas Monastery, Verkhoturye (1918)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Alexander (Shchukin), Archbishop of Semipalatinsk (1937)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 Ignatius of Antioch, called 'the God-bearer', Bishop of Antioch (107)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Solina, born in Gascony in France, she escaped to Chartres to avoid marriage to a pagan, was beheaded in Chartres (c. 290)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Regulus (Rule), by tradition an abbot who brought relics of St Andrew from Greece to Scotland, leading to St Andrew's adoption as the patron-saint of... (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Florentius of Orange, the eighth Bishop of Orange in the south of France (c. 526)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Victor of Capua, consecrated Bishop of Capua in Italy in 541 and a prolific writer (554)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Colmán of Kilroot, a disciple of St Ailbe of Emly and Bishop of Kilroot near Carrickfergus in Ireland (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Louthiern, born in Ireland, he is the patron-saint of St Ludgran in Cornwall (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Æthelred and Æthelberht, Princes of Kent (c. 640)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Berarius, Bishop of Le Mans in France (c. 680)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Anstrudis of Laon (688)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Nothhelm, eleventh Archbishop of Canterbury and a friend of St Bede and St Boniface (739)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.
- Translation of the relics (695) of St. Etheldreda, Royal Abbess of Ely (679)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Translation of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), Bishop of Kition in Cyprus (1st century)Ἀνακομιδὴ καὶ Κατάθεσις τοῦ Λειψάνου τοῦ Ἁγίου καὶ Δικαίου Λαζάρουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Icon of the Mother of God "In Giving Birth, you Preserved your Virginity" (1827)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Icon of the Mother of God the "Deliveress" / Rescuer (1889)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Synaxis of the Patron Saints of the Holy Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, in GreeceΜνήμη πάντων τῶν Προστατῶν καὶ Πολιούχων Ἁγίων της Ἱερᾶς Μητροπόλεως Ὕδραςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Repose of Elder Athanasius (Zakharov) of Ploshchansk Hermitage (1825), disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Nun Alypia, Fool-for-Christ, of Goloseyevo, Kiev (1988)pravoslavie.ru
The list is October 17 (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.