October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
October 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 23 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For October 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 9. From the Synaxarion Saint Zacharias the Martyr, Orthodox martyr, by drowning in the sea (either same as, or different from, saint commemorated on October 21) Saints Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Abercius, Bishop and Wonderworker, of Hierapolis (167) Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop, and Martyrs Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria, at Adrianople (2nd-3rd centuries) The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus (250 and c. 446) (see also: August 4 ) Martyr Theodoret, at Antioch (362) Venerables Lot and Rufus, of Egypt (5th century) Saint Eulavios, Bishop of Lambousa (ancient Lapithos). Pre-Schism Western saints Saint Philip of Fermo, Bishop and martyr of Fermo in Italy (c. 270) Saint Mellonius (Mellon), first Bishop of Rouen (314) Saint Nepotianus, Bishop of Clermont in France (c. 388) Saint Verecundus (Verecondo), Bishop of Verona in Italy (522) Saint Simplicius, a disciple of St Benedict and third Abbot of Montecassino (c. 570) Saint Maroveus, a monk at Bobbio Abbey and founder of the monastery of Precipiano near Tortona