October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Martyr Sebastiani
• Martyrs Sotiricus and Valentinos, from Asia Minor, by being dragged over sharp stones.
• Hieromartyr Akakios the Presbyter, by the sword.
• Martyr Nerdonus, by fire.
• Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople
• Great-martyr Arethas of Omir and 4,299 martyrs with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters
• A holy woman martyr and her child, together with Martyr Arethas of Omir and his companions
• Blessed Elesbaan, King of Ethiopia

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Felix, Audactus, Januarius, Fortunatus and Septimus
• Saint Evergislus, a Bishop of Cologne in Germany, martyred by heathen robbers
• Saint Maglorius of Sark, Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany
• Saint Senoch the Healer, Abbot, of Tours, Gaul
• Saint Cadfarch, a disciple of St Iltyd, he founded churches in Penegoes and Abererch in Wales
• Saint Martin of Vertou, founder of the monastery of Vertou near Nantes, also of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes and other monasteries
• Saint Marcius, a hermit at Montecassino in Italy
• Saint Fromundus, Monk, Abbot and then Bishop of Coutances in France

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Arethas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves
• Venerable Sisoes of the Kiev Caves
• Venerable Theophilus the Silent, of the Kiev Caves
• Saint Athanasius I of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople
• Saint John, recluse, of the Pskov Caves
• Venerable Zosima, Elder, of Siberia
• Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece

  New Martys and Confessors

• New Hieromartyr Lawrence, Bishop of Balakhnin, and Alexis Porfiriev, Archpriest, and with them New Martyr Alexis Neidhardt
• New Hieromartyr Arethas, Hieromonk of Valaam,
• New Hieromartyrs John Smirnov and Nicholas Nikolsky, Priests
• New Martyr Peter Bogorodsky, Priest

  Other commemorations

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos The "Joy of All Who Sorrow"
• Repose of Blessed Eudocia of Ryazan
• Repose of Hieroschemamonk Barsanuphius of Valaam

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