October 31

The days of month October: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31

Feasts

Apostles Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus of the Seventy (1st century); Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium, at Alexandria (c. 250); Martyrs Epimachus the Roman and his companion Gordian (361-363) (see also May 9); Saint James (Jacob) of Nisibis, the Wonderworker, Bishop of Mygdonia, one of the 318 fathers of the First Council of Nicaea (4th century); Saint Maura of Constantinople (436); Martyrs Seleucius and Stratonica his wife, myrrh-gushers; Martyrs Stephen, Barnabas, Trophimus, Dorymedon, Cosmas, Damian, Sabbas, Bassa, Abraham, and others with them (see also September 19); The Holy Twelve Daughters; The Holy Three Martyrs of Melitene; The Holy Child Martyr; Martyr Quentin (Quinctinus) of Rome (3rd-4th century); Saint Erc (Erth), Bishop of Lilcach (Slane) (6th century) (see also November 2); Monk-martyr Foillan, Irish missionary, Abbot of Fosses (655); Saint Antoninus Fontana, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (660); Saint Begu, nun of Hackness in Yorkshire, England (c. 660); Saint Notburga, nun of St. Mary in the Capitol, Cologne (c. 714); Saint Arnulf, monk of Novalese in Piedmont, martyred by the Saracens (c. 840); Saint Wolfgang, Bishop of Regensburg (994); Venerable Spyridon and Nicodemus, the prosphora-bakers of the Kiev Caves (12th century); Saint Anatolius, recluse of the Near Caves in Kiev (12th century); 100,000 Martyrs of Tbilisi, slain under Jalal al-Din (1227); New-Martyr Nicholas of Chios (1754); Righteous Petro Kalnyshevsky, Koshevoy Ataman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1803); Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Archpriest, of Chicago and St. Petersburg, first priest-martyr of the Russian Revolution (1917); New Hieromartyr Leonid (Molchanov), Abbot of Solvychegodsk Monastery, Vologda (1918); New Hieromartyrs Alexander Vozdvizhensky, Archpriest, of Novo-Zagarye; Peter Voskoboinikov, Archpriest, of Batkopolye; and Vsevolod Smirnov, Archpriest, of Dermentsovo, Moscow (1937); New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Archbishop of Yelets, and Alexis Sibirsky, Sergius Rozanov and Basil Archangelsky, priests (1937); New Martyr Jacob Blatov (1937); New Hieromartyrs Euphrosynus (Antonov), Hieromonk of the Seven Lakes Monastery, Kazan; Anatole (Botvinnikov), Hieromonk, of Dubrovskoye, Tver; and Innocent (Mazurin), Hierodeacon, of Buygorod, Volokolamsk (1938); Other Commemorations: Commemoration of an anonymous Apologist, under Julian the Apostate (c. 361); Consecration of the Patriarchal Prayer Chapel; Martyrdom of José Muñoz-Cortes, keeper of the Montreal copy of the Iveron Icon, in Athens (1997) (see also October 18).