October 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 24
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 10.Saints
- Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, first Bishop of Jerusalem
- Venerable Petronius of Egypt, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great
- Venerable Ignatios of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Saint Macarius the Roman, of Mesopotamia.
- Venerable Nicephorus of Charsianos, Constantinople.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Servandus and Germanus, sons of St Marcellus of Léon in Spain, martyred in Cadiz while on their way to Tangiers under arrest
- Saint Amon of Toul, Second Bishop of Toul in France, the successor of St Mansuetus
- Saint Verus, third Bishop of Salerno in Italy
- Saint Severin of Cologne, third known Bishop of Cologne and a prominent opponent of Arianism
- Saint Severinus of Bordeaux, Bishop of Bordeaux in France
- Saint Clether, one of the twenty-four children of Saint Brychan, a Welsh saint and King of Brycheiniog
- Saint Severinus Boethius, a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher, martyred at Pavia in Italy
- Saint John of Syracuse, Bishop of Syracuse in Sicily from 595
- Saint Romanus of Rouen, Bishop of Rouen
- Saint Benedict of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Samaria, who fled to Gaul and built a hermitage near Poitiers
- Saint Syra, a nun at Faremoutiers Abbey, from where she was asked by Bishop Ragnebaud to become Abbess of Châlons-sur-Marne
- Saint Leothadius, Abbot of Moissac Abbey in the south of France, later he became Bishop of Auch
- Saint Oda of Amay, Belgium ], foundress of churches
- Saint Domitius, hermit near Amiens in France
- Saint Elfleda, a princess who lived as an anchoress in Glastonbury Abbey; she was revered by St Dunstan
- Saint Ethelfleda, Abbess of Romsey Abbey
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Elisha of Lauryshava Monastery in Belarus, Igumen
New Martys and Confessors
- New Hieromartyr Eusebius, Archbishop of Shadrinsk
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Ambartsumov, Archpriest, of Moscow
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Agafonnikov, Alexander Soloviev, Nicholas Archangelsky, Emilian Goncharov and Sozon Reshetilov, Priests
- Venerable Euphrosyne Timofeeva
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics of Blessed James of Borovichi, Novgorod
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