October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 19

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 31 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke (1st century)
• Hieromartyr Cyriacus (Kyriakos), Bishop of Jerusalem (ca.360-363)
• Martyr Marinus the Elder of Anazarbus (4th century)
• Saint Julian the Hermit of Mesopotamia (4th century)
• Saint Didymus the Blind of Mesopotamia (4th century)
• Saint Mnason of Cyprus, bishop (1st century)
• St. Joseph, abbot of Volokolamsk (Volotsk) (1515)
• Saint David of Serpukhov, abbot (1520)
• Martyrs Gabriel and Cirmidol of Egypt (1522)
• Saints Symeon, Theodore, and Euphrosynus, monks who found the Icon of the Theotokos in the Great Cave of the Peloponnesus (9th century)
• Saint Peter of Montenegro, metropolitan (1830)

Other Commemorations

• Slaying of Brother José Muñoz-Cortes (in monasticism Monk Ambrose), guardian of the myrrh-streaming “Montreal” Iveron Icon of the Theotokos (1997)

Sources

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar

• Ὁ Ἅγιος Κυριάκος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας. 18 Οκτωβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Edward Bickersteth Birks (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge), "CYRIACUS (6)". In: Willian Smith and Henry Wace. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines. Volume 1: A-D. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1877. Page 757.
• Ὁ Ὅσιος Κυριακὸς ὁ Ἀναχωρητὴς. 29 Σεπτεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• October 31 / October 18. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• OCTOBER 18. Prologue from Ochrid (Australian and New Zealand Diocese (ROCOR)).