Feasts
Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia at Nicomedia, and 200 martyrs with them; Martyr Theotecnus of Antioch;
Saint Theophilus the
Confessor of Bulgaria; Saint Bassian of Constantinople; Blessed Andrew of Totma,
Fool-for-Christ;
Venerable Ambrose of Optina;
26 martyrs of
Zographou Monastery on
Mount Athos, by the Latin Crusaders:
Abbot Thomas,
monks Barsanuphius, Cyril, Micah, Simon, Hilarion, Job, James, Cyprian, Sabbas, James, Martinian, Cosmas, Sergius, Paul, Menas, Ioasaph, Ioannicius, Anthony, Euthymius, Dometian, Parthenius, and four
laymen (see also
September 21 and
22);
synaxis of the seven saints of Volhynia: Saint Job, Abbot of Pochaev, Stephen and Amphilochius,
Bishops of Vladimir in Volhynia,
Hieromartyr Macarius,
Archimandrite of Kanev, Saint Yaropolk, prince of Vladimir-Volhynia, Saint Theodore (in
monasticism Theodosius), prince of Ostrog, and Saint Juliana Olshanskaya; synaxis of the righteous fathers of the
Optina Monastery in Russia: Saints Leo, Macarius, Moses, Anthony, Hilarion,
Ambrose, Anatolius, Isaacius, Joseph, Barsanuphius, Anatolius the Younger, Nectarius, Nicon, and Isaacius the second; Saint Paulinos, Bishop of Rochester; New Hieromartyr Peter of Krutitsa; Zographou
Icon of the Most Holy
Theotokos "Of the
Akathist;" repose of Bishop Innocent of Penze
