October 28

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Feasts

Protection of the Mother of God
Venerable Job of Pochaev
Demetrius of Rostov
Our Lady of Deliverance ("Panagia Eleftherotria"), Shrine of Panagia Eleftherotria, Kifissia, Athens.

The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, at the Blachernae church in Constantinople (911) - (Greek Orthodox Church; see also; October 1); Martyrs Terence and Neonilla, of Syria, and their children Sarbelus, Photus, Theodulus, Hierax, Nitus, Bele, and Eunice (249); Great-martyr Paraskevi of Iconium (3rd c.); Venerable Saints Firmilian, Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (ca. 269), and Malchion, priest of Antioch (late 3rd c.); Hieromartyr Kyriakos (Cyriacus), Chorepiscopus of Jerusalem, and his mother, Martyr Anna (both 363); Venerable Diomedes the Young, of Cyprus, Wonderworker (ca.4th c.); Saint Abramius of Ephesus, Bishop of Ephesus (6th c.); Saint Febronia (632), daughter of Emperor Heraclius; Venerable Stephen of Mar Sabbas monastery in Palestine, hymnographer (807); Saint John the Chozebite, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine (532) - (see also: October 3 - Greek); Hieromartyr Neophytus, Bishop of Urbnisi, Georgia (7th c.); Martyrs Terence, Africanus, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others, at Carthage (250); Martyrs Anastasia and Cyril, early martyrs in Rome (ca.253) - (see also October 29 - in the East); Martyr Cyrilla, the daughter of St Tryphonia (ca.268); Martyr Fidelis of Como, an Italian soldier-saint, in Lombardy under Maximian Herculeus (304); Saint Honoratus of Vercelli, Bishop of Vercelli (ca.415); Saint Ferrutius of Mainz, Germany; Saint Salvius (Saire), hermit (6th c.); Saint Faro, Bishop of Meaux in France (626), he greatly encouraged monasticism (675); Saint Godwin of Stavelot, Abbot of the monastery of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium (ca.690); Saint Dorbheneus (Dorbhene), Abbot of Iona (713); Saint Anglinus, tenth Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy near Liège in Belgium (ca.768); Saint Alberic, Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium (779); Saint Remigius of Lyon, Archbishop of Lyons in France (875); Saint Eadsin (Eadsige), thirty-third Archbishop of Canterbury, England, who Crowned King Edward the Confessor (1050); Saint Arsenius of Srem, Archbishop of Serbia (1266); Venerable Athanasius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos) (1340); New Martyrs Angelis, Manuel, George, and Nicholas, at Rethymno on Crete (1824); Saint Nestor (not the Chronicler) of the Kiev Caves (14th c.); Righteous Virgin Parasceva of Pirimin on the Pinega River (Arkhangelsk) (16th c.); Venerable Job of Pochaev, Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev (1651); Saint Demetrius of Rostov, Metropolitan of Rostov (1709); Repose of Blessed Schema-hieromonk Theophilus, Fool-for-Christ of the Kiev Caves (1853); Venerable Arsenius of Cappadocia (1924) - (see also November 10 - Greek Orthodox Church); New Hieromartyr John Vilensky, Priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1918); New Hieromartyr Michael Lektorsky, Archpriest of Kuban (1921); Other Commemorations: Synaxis of the Shrine of Panagia Eleftherotria ("Our Lady of Deliverance") in Kifissia, Athens, Greece; Synaxis of the Church of Panagia Eleftherotria ("Our Lady of Deliverance") in Didymoteicho, Greece; Commemoration of Schema-Igumen Adrian (Antoniv) of Poltava and Kozelschansk (1953); Repose of Elder Epiphanius (Theodoropoulos) of Athens (1989).