October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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September 30 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 2

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 14 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For October 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 18.

Feasts

The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, at the Blachernae church in Constantinople (911) <small>(see also: October 28 - Greek Orthodox Church)</small>

Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica (4th century)
Ezana of Axum, king of Ethiopia (4th century).
King Mirian III of Iberia (c. 361) and Queen Nana of Mtskheta (c. 364) - Equals-of-the-Apostles, St. Abiathar of Mtskheta, and St. Sidonia, disciple of St. Nina (4th century)
Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer" (c. 556)
Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sebaste, and 36 fathers with him (c. 790)

Saint Piatus of Tournai, he enlightened the areas around Tournai in Belgium and Chartres in France (c. 286)
Martyrs Verissimus, Maxima and Julia, in Portugal under Diocletian (c. 302)
Saint Bavo of Ghent, penitent and hermit, confessor and patron of Haarlem in the Netherlands (659)|group=note
Saint Dodo, Abbot of Wallers-en-Faigne (750)
Saint Virila, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Leyre in Spain (c. 1000)
Saint John Kukuzelis of Mount Athos (1360)
Venerable Sabbas, abbot of Vishera in Novgorod, the Wonderworker (1460)

New Hieromartyr Alexis Stavrovsky, priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Michael (Vologodsky), priest of Krasnoyarsk (1920).
New Hieromartyr George (Archangelsky), priest (1937)
Translation of the relics of Saint Remigius of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks (533)