October 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

October 30 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 1

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 13 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For October 31st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 18.

Saints

• Apostles of the Seventy: Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus^[1][2] (1st century)^{[3][4][5][6][note 2]}
• Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, at Alexandria (c. 250)^[3][5][8][9]
• Saint Maura of Constantinople (436)^[3][10][11]
• Martyrs Epimachus the Roman^[12] and his companion Gordianos^[13] (361-363)^[3][5] (see also: May 9)
• Saint Jacob of Nisibis the Worderworker, Bishop of Antiochia Mygdoniae (4th century)^{[3][5][10][14]}
• Martyrs Seleucius and Stratonica his wife, myrrh-gushers.^[5][15]
• Martyrs Stephen, Barnabas, Trophimus, Dorymedon, Cosmas, Damian, Sabbas, Bassa, Abramios, and others with them.^[5][16] (see also: September 19)
• The Holy Twelve Daughters.^{[17][note 3]}
• The Holy Three Martyrs of Melitene.^[18]
• The Holy Child Martyr.^{[19][note 4]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Quentin (Quinctinus), martyr.^{[3][10][20][21][note 5][note 6]}
• Saint Erth (Erc of Slane, Herygh, Urith) (6th century)^{[20][note 7]} (see also: November 2)
• Monk-martyr Foillan, Irish missionary, of Burgh Castle (East Anglia) and Fosse (Gaul) (655)^{[3][10][20][note 8][note 9]}
• Saint Antoninus, called Fontana, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (660)^[7][20]
• Saint Begu, a nun at Hackness in Yorkshire in England (c. 660)^{[20][note 10]}
• Saint Notburga, a nun at the convent of St Mary in the Capitol in Cologne in Germany (c. 714)^[20]
• Saint Arnulf, a monk at Novalese in Piedmont in Italy, martyred by the Saracens (c. 840)^[20]
• Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg, Bishop of Regensburg (994)^{[7][20][23][note 11]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Spyridon and Nicodemus the Prosphora-bakers, of the Kiev Caves (1148)^{[3][5][10][24][25][note 12]}
• Saint Anatolius, recluse of the Near Caves in Kiev (12th century)^[3][10]
• 100,000 Martyrs of Tbilisi slain under Jalal al-Din (1227)^[3][10][26]
• New Martyr Nicholas of Chios (1754)^{[3][5][10][27]}
• Righteous Petro Kalnyshevsky, Koshevoy-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1803)^{[28][note 13]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Archpriest, of Chicago and St. Petersburg, First Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik Yoke (1917)^{[3][10][29][30][31][32][33]}
• New Hieromartyr Leonid (Molchanov), Abbot of the Sovlvychegodsk Monastery, Vologda (1918)^{[3][10][32][33]}
• New Hieromartyrs (1937):

• Sergius, Archbishop of Yeletsky.^[31]
• Vsevolod Smirnov, Protopresbyter, of Moscow.^[10][31][33]
• Alexis Sibersky of Tver, and of Moscow, priest.^{[10][31][33][note 14]}
• Alexander Vozdvizhensky and Sergius Rozanov, priests.^[10][31][33]
• Basil Archangelsky, priest.^{[10][33][note 15]}
• Euphrosynus (Antonov), Hieromonk of the Seven Lakes Monastery, Kazan.^{[3][10][32][33]}
• Anatole (Botvinnikov), Hieromonk, of Dubrovskoye, Tver.^{[3][10][32][33]}

• New Martyr Jacob Blatov (1937)^{[10][31][32][33]}
• New Hieromartyr Innocent (Mazurin), Hierodeacon, of Buygorod, Volokolamsk (1938)^{[3][10][32][33][note 16]}

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of an Anonymous Apologist, under Julian the Apostate (c. 361)^{[34][note 17]}
• Consecration of the Patriarchal Prayer Chapel.^{[35][note 18]}
• Martyrdom of José Muñoz Cortés, keeper of the "Montreal" copy of the Panagia Portaitissa icon, in Athens (1997)^{[36][note 19]}

Icon gallery

• 
  Apostles Stachys, Amplias and Urban.
• 
  Aristobulus of Britannia.
• 
  Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium.
• 
  Saint Quentin.
• 
  Monk-martyr Foillan, Irish missionary.
• 
  St, Wolfgang of Regensburg, the Almoner.
• 
  Ven. Spyridon and Nicodemus the Prosphora-bakers, of the Kiev Caves.
• 
  New Hieromartyr John Kochurov.
• 
  New Hieromartyr Alexis Sibersky of Tver.
• 
  New Hieromartyr Alexis Sibersky of Tver.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "The same day, the Saints Ampliatus, Urbanus and Narcissus, who are mentioned by St. Paul in his epistle to the Romans. They were put to death by the Jews and Gentiles for the Gospel of Christ."^[7]
3. Martyred by being hung in the middle of the Stoa.
4. They martyred him by breaking his skull with large stones.
5. According to tradition, Quentin was born in Rome and went to France. He enlightened the area round Amiens and was martyred at the town now called Saint-Quentin.
6. "At Saint-Quentin, in France, St. Quinctinus, Roman citizen and senator, who endured martyrdom under the emperor Maximian. By the revelation of an angel, his body was found incorrupt after the lapse of fifty-five years."^[7]
7. Brother of St Uny and St Ia (Ives). He went from Ireland to Cornwall, where a church is dedicated to him, and also gave his name to the village of St Erth.
8. Brother of Sts Fursey and Ultan. They left Ireland for East Anglia in England. St Foillan became the Abbot of Burgh Castle near Yarmouth but when this monastery was destroyed, he went to Belgium. St Ita of Nivelles gave him land at Fosses where he founded a monastery. He enlightened Brabant but was killed by robbers and is venerated as a martyr.
9. "ST. FOILAN was a native of Ireland, and came with his brothers, St. Fursey and St. Ultan, into England, where they founded the religious house of Burghcastle, in Suffolk. When St. Fursey retired to the Continent, he left St. Foilan and others to govern in his stead. In the course of time he also left England, and established the Monastery of Fosse, on a site given to him by St. Gertrude of Nivielle. He was consecrated Bishop by Pope Martin I, with a commission to preach to the infidels. In the zealous exercise of this work he received the crown of martyrdom at their hands."^[22]
10. "ST. BEGH, or BEE (in Latin BEGA), was of Irish parentage, and fled to England to escape a marriage which her parents had planned for her, having the holy purpose of consecrating her virginity to God. On her first landing, she is said to have found refuge on the promontory still known as St. Bee's Head, in Cumberland, where in after-years there was a cell of monks, depending on the Abbey of St. Mary's, in York. Bega received the religious habit from the Bishop St. Aidan, and is reported to have been the first so professed in Britain. The subsequent history of her life is unknown, unless she be the same with St. Hieu, or the Begu, mentioned by St. Bede, as some have supposed.^[22]
11. Born in Swabia in Germany, he became a monk at Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland (964). In 971 he was ordained and with a group of monks went to convert the Magyars, but in 972 he was made Bishop of Regensburg. He was a great benefactor of the poor.
12. (in Ukrainian) Спиридон Проскурник. Вікіпедії (Ukrainian Wikipedia).
13. He was glorified by Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in 2014.
14. See: (in Russian) Алексий Сибирский. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
15. See: (in Russian) Архангельский, Василий Васильевич. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
16. See: (in Russian) Иннокентий (Мазурин). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
17. This saint lived in the reign of Julian the Apostate (361), and was the son of a pagan priest. A certain pious Christian Deaconess brought him to the faith in Christ, who was a friend of his mother. He suffered severe tortures in the beginning, when his father learned of this. He miraculously survived however, and after Julian the Apostate died, he managed to bring his elderly father to the Christian faith and many other young pagans. He then lived a strict ascetical life and reposed in peace.
18. Recorded in the Patmian Codex.
19. Possibly in the previous night.