31 October
31 commemorations of 31 October in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 13 November of the civil calendar.
Saints
- Apostles of the Seventy: Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀριστόβουλος ὁ Ἀπόστολοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · orthochristian.com · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, at Alexandria (c. 250)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐπίμαχος ὁ Αἰγύπτιοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Maura of Constantinople (436)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Epimachus the Roman and his companion Gordianos (361-363)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐπίμαχος ὁ Ρωμαῖοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Jacob of Nisibis the Worderworker, Bishop of Antiochia Mygdoniae (4th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος Ἐπίσκοπος Μυγδονίαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Seleucius and Stratonica his wife, myrrh-gushersΟἱ Ἅγιοι Σέλευκος καὶ Στρατονίκη οἱ σύζυγοιsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyrs Stephen, Barnabas, Trophimus, Dorymedon, Cosmas, Damian, Sabbas, Bassa, Abramios, and others with themΟἱ Ἅγιοι Στέφανος, Βαρνάβας, Τρόφιμος, Δορυμέδων, Κοσμᾶς, Δαμιανός, Σάββας, Βάσης, Ἀβράμιος καὶ ἡ συνοδεία αὐτῶνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- The Holy Twelve DaughtersΟἱ Ἁγίες Δώδεκα Κόρεςsynaxarion.gr
- The Holy Three Martyrs of MeliteneΟἱ Ἅγιοι Τρεῖς Μάρτυρες οἱ ἐν Μελιτινῇsynaxarion.gr
- The Holy Child MartyrΤὸ Ἅγιο Παιδὶ ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Spyridon and Nicodemus the Prosphora-bakers, of the Kiev Caves (1148)Οἱ Ὅσιοι Σπυρίδων καὶ Νικόδημος οἱ ἐν τῷ Σπηλαίῳ (Ρώσοι)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Anatolius, recluse of the Near Caves in Kiev (12th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- 100,000 Martyrs of Tbilisi slain under Jalal al-Din (1227)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Martyr Nicholas of Chios (1754)Ὁ Ἅγιος Νικόλαος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἀπὸ τὴ Χῖοsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Righteous Petro Kalnyshevsky, Koshevoy-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1803)drevo-info.ru · news.church.ua
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Archpriest, of Chicago and St. Petersburg, First Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik Yoke (1917)saint.gr · oca.org · pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Leonid (Molchanov), Abbot of the Sovlvychegodsk Monastery, Vologda (1918)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs (1937)
- Sergius, Archbishop of Yeletsky
- Vsevolod Smirnov, Protopresbyter, of Moscow
- Alexis Sibersky of Tver, and of Moscow, priest
- Alexander Vozdvizhensky and Sergius Rozanov, priests
- Basil Archangelsky, priest
- Euphrosynus (Antonov), Hieromonk of the Seven Lakes Monastery, Kazan
- Anatole (Botvinnikov), Hieromonk, of Dubrovskoye, Tver
- New Martyr Jacob Blatov (1937)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Innocent (Mazurin), Hierodeacon, of Buygorod, Volokolamsk (1938)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 Quentin (Quinctinus), martyrorthodoxengland.org.uk · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Erth (Erc of Slane, Herygh, Urith) (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Monk-martyr Foillan, Irish missionary, of Burgh Castle (East Anglia) and Fosse (Gaul) (655)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Antoninus, called Fontana, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (660)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Begu, a nun at Hackness in Yorkshire in England (c. 660)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Notburga, a nun at the convent of St Mary in the Capitol in Cologne in Germany (c. 714)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Arnulf, a monk at Novalese in Piedmont in Italy, martyred by the Saracens (c. 840)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg, Bishop of Regensburg (994)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.
- Commemoration of an Anonymous Apologist, under Julian the Apostate (c. 361)Μνήμη Ἀνώνυμου Ἀπολογητοῦsynaxarion.gr
- Consecration of the Patriarchal Prayer ChapelἘγκαίνια τοῦ Πατριάρχου Εὐκτηρίωνsynaxarion.gr
- Martyrdom of José Muñoz Cortés, keeper of the "Montreal" copy of the Panagia Portaitissa icon, in Athens (1997)stjohndc.org
The list is October 31 (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.