October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 9
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 25.Saints
- Hieromartyr Artemon, a priest at Laodicea
- Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Antioch
- Venerable Thaïs of Egypt, repentant courtesan
- Venerable Pelagia the Penitent, of the Mount of Olives
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Palatias and Laurentia, in Fermo near Ancona, Italy
- Saint Keyne, hermitess of Cornwall
- Saint Evodus, Bishop of Rouen in France
- Saint Benedicta, a virgin-martyr in Laon in France.
- Saint Gratus, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône in France
- Saint Badilo, a monk at Vézelay Abbey in France, he became Abbot of Leuze in Hainault in Belgium
- Saint Peter of Seville, a martyr venerated in Seville in Spain.
- Saint Amor of Aquitaine, hermit, rebuilder of Munsterbilzen Abbey
- Saint Triduana, nun of Restalrig, Scotland
- St. Iwig Hierodeacon of Lindisfarne
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Anthony of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod
- Venerable Dositheus of Verkhneostrov in Pskov
- Saint Tryphon of Vyatka, Archimandrite
- New Monk-martyr Ignatius of Bulgaria and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople
New Martys and Confessors
- Monk-martyr Varlaam
- New Hieromartyrs :
- New Hieromartyr Jonah, Bishop of Nevel, Pskov
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim Schelokov
- New Hieromartyrs Peter Nicotin, Basil Ozeretskovsky, Paul Preobrazhensky, Peter Ozeretskovsky, Vladimir Speransky, Priests
- Martyrs Victor Frolov, John Rybin, Nicholas Kuzmin
- Virgin-martyr Elizabeth Kuranov
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of St. Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne and Enlightener of Northumbria.
- Translation of the relics of St. Ceolfrith, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow.
- Synaxis of the Saints of Vyatka.
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