21 October
42 commemorations of 21 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 3 November of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Hieromartyr Socrates, Priest, and Martyr Theodote, of Ancyra (c. 230)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Θεοδότη καὶ Σωκράτης ὁ Πρεσβύτεροςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Dasius, Gaius, and Zoticus at Nicomedia (303)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γάϊος, Δάσιος καὶ Ζωτικὸς οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Darius, Zosimus, Paul, and Secundus, martyrs of Nicaea by Diocletian (4th century)azbyka.ru
- Martyr Azes, by fireὉ Ἅγιος Ἀζῆς ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
- Saints Plantinos (Platinus), Irene and Marina of RaithuὉ Ἅγιος Πλαντῖνοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Venerable Hilarion the Great, of Gaza (371)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἱλαρίων ὁ Μέγαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- The 63 Martyrs of Jerusalem (724)
- Pegasus, Neophytus, Acacius, Dorotheus, Stephen, Dometius, Herman, Dionysius, Epiphanius, Stratonicus, Leontius, Emmanuel, Theophilus, Elias, John, Samuel, Eulampius, Alexius, Photius, Eutrepius, Methodius, Chariton, Theophylactus, Anastasius, Andronicus, Symeon, Theoktistus, Romanus, Paul, Agathonicus, Minas, Athanasius, Jacob, Nicephorus, Porphyrius, Timothy, Irenarchus, Auxentius, Joseph, Gregory, Callinicus, Aaron, Cyriacus, Theodosius, Eustathius, Isaac, Alexander, Eleutherius, Adrian, Christophor, Antiochus, Isidore, Parthenius, Sergius, Euplus, Ignatius, Theophanes, Cyril, Zachariah, and Anthimus
- Martyrs Andrew, Stephen, Paul and Peter, under Constantine V Copronymus (c. 741–775)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀνδρέας, Στέφανος, Παῦλος καὶ Πέτρος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · saint.gr
- Venerable Martyr Zacharias, by drowning in the seaὉ Ἅγιος Ζαχαρίας ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · saint.gr
- Venerable Baruch, reposed in peaceὉ Ὅσιος Βαροῦχsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · saint.gr
- Venerable PhillipὉ Ὅσιος Φίλιπποςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Venerable Jacob, Oeconomus of Batheos Rhyakos MonasteryὉ Ὅσιος Ἰάκωβοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Hilarion of Kiev, the first non-Greek Metropolitan of Kiev (c. 1055)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Venerable Hilarion the Schemamonk of the Kiev Caves (11th century)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Venerables Barnabas and Hilarion the Wonderworkers, of Peristerona, Cyprus, of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (12th century)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Βαρνάβας καὶ Ἱλαρίων οἱ Θαυματουργοίsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Venerable Philotheus of Neapolis and Mt. Athos (14th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Φιλόθεος ὁ Ἀσκητὴς ἐν Ἄθῳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Theophilus and James, monks of Konevits, founders of Dormition Monastery at Omutch (modern-day Feofilova Pustyn'),(ru) Pskov (c. 1412)oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hilarion, founder of Pskovoezersk Monastery, Gdov (1476)oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Bessarion (Sarai), Hieromonk (1745), and Sophronius of Ciorara, monk (c. 1765), Confessors, and St. Oprea of Săliște (18th century), martyred by the...holytrinityorthodox.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr John of Monemvasia, Peloponnesus, at Larissa (1773)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Hieroconfessors John of Galёs, and Moses (Macinic), Priests, of Sibiel, Transylvania (18th century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Alexis (Bui), Bishop of Voronezh (1930)pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Paulinus (Kroshechkin), Archbishop of Mogilev, and Arcadius (Yershov), Bishop of Ekaterinburg, and with them Anatole Levitsky and Nicander... (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravenc.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Damian (Voskresensky), Archbishop of Kursk (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Constantine Chekalov, Sergius Smirnov, Basil Nikolsky, Theodore Belyaev, Vladimir Vvedensky, Nicholas Raevsky, John Kozyrev, Basil Kozyrev... (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravenc.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Neophytus (Osipov), Archimandrite, of Moscow, and Sophronius (Nesmeyanov), Hieromonk, of Lozeva, Tver (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Virgin-Martyr Pelagia Testovoy (1944)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 Asterius of Ostia, martyred priest (c. 223)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Viator of Lyons, hermit (389)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ursula of Cologne and her companions, martyrs at Cologne (c. 451)Ἡ Ἁγία Ursula (Βρεταννίδα)synaxarion.gr · Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Cilinia, the mother of St Principius, Bishop of Soissons and St Remigius, Bishop of Rheims (c. 458)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Fintan Munnu (Finian), of Teachmunnu, Ireland (635)Ὁ Ἅγιος Finan (Ἰρλανδός)synaxarion.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Saint Tuda of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne (c. 664)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Condedus (Condé, Condède), a hermit at Fontaine-de-Saint-Valéry in the north of France (c. 690)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wendelin of Trier (Wendolinus, Wendel), a shepherd who was famous for his holiness and is venerated at St Wendel on the Nahe in the west of Germany (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Malathgen of Cluain-Edneach, Ireland, Abbot (767)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Hugh of Ambronay, third Abbot of Ambronay Abbey near Belley in France (9th–10th centuries)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maurontus, Abbot of St Victor at Marseilles, he became bishop of the same city around 767 (c. 804)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 of St. Christodoulos the Wonderworker of Patmos (1093)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Χριστοδούλου τοῦ Θαυματουργοῦsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Translation of the relics (1206) of St. Hilarion, Bishop of Meglin, Bulgaria (1164)Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Ἱλαρίωνος Ἐπισκόπου Μεγληνίας (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Herman (Bogdanov) of New Valaam Monastery in Siberia (1938)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schema-Nun Seraphima (Bobkova) of Shamordino Convent (1990)pravoslavie.ru
The list is October 21 (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.