October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Prophet Hosea
• Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian, and their brothers, martyrs Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius, and 15 Holy Unmercenaries with them, in Cilicia
• Saints Antigonus, Loukianos, Terentius, Nicomedes and Theophanis.
• Saints Isidora and Neophyte.
• Martyr Queen Shushanik of Georgia
• Hieromartyr Andrew of Crete, in "the Judgment"

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Ignatius of Antioch, called 'the God-bearer', Bishop of Antioch
• Saint Solina, born in Gascony in France, she escaped to Chartres to avoid marriage to a pagan, was beheaded in Chartres
• Saint Regulus, 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 Scotland
• Saint Florentius of Orange, the eighth Bishop of Orange in the south of France
• Saint Victor of Capua, consecrated Bishop of Capua in Italy in 541 and a prolific writer
• Saint Colmán of Kilroot, a disciple of St Ailbe of Emly and Bishop of Kilroot near Carrickfergus in Ireland
• Saint Louthiern, born in Ireland, he is the patron-saint of St Ludgran in Cornwall
• Martyrs Æthelred and Æthelberht, Princes of Kent
• Saint Berarius, Bishop of Le Mans in France
• Saint Anstrudis of Laon
• Saint Nothhelm, eleventh Archbishop of Canterbury and a friend of St Bede and St Boniface

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Martyr Kozman, of Georgia.
• Venerable Anthony, founder of Leokhnov Monastery, Novgorod
• Saint Ioseb the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia

  New Martys and Confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Neophyt Lyubimov and Anatoly Ivanovsky, Priests
• New Monk-martyrs Jacinthus Pitatelev and Callistus Oparin, of the St. Nicholas Monastery, Verkhoturye
• New Hieromartyr Alexander, Archbishop of Semipalatinsk

  Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of St. Etheldreda, Royal Abbess of Ely
• Translation of the relics of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days", Bishop of Kition in Cyprus
• Icon of the Mother of God "In Giving Birth, you Preserved your Virginity"
• Icon of the Mother of God the "Deliveress" / Rescuer
• Synaxis of the Patron Saints of the Holy Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, in Greece.
• Repose of Elder Athanasius of Ploshchansk Hermitage, disciple of St. Paisius.
• Repose of Nun Alypia, Fool-for-Christ, of Goloseyevo, Kiev

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