October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Oct. 7 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 9
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 21 by Old Calendarist Orthodox
Saints
- Venerable Pelagia the Penitent of the Mount of Olives (457)
- Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Antioch (303)
- Saint Thaïs (Taisia) of Egypt (4th century)
- St. Anthony, archbishop of Novgorod (1232)
- Saint Dositheus of Verkneostrov in Pskov (1482)
- Saint Tryphon of Vyatka, abbot (1612)
- New Monk-martyr Ignatius of Bulgaria and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814)
- New Hieromartyrs Jonah (Lazarev), bishop of Velizhsk, and companions (1937)
- Demetrius (Dobroserdov), archbishop of Mozhaisk, and with him John the deacon, Monk-martyrs Andrew and Pachomius, Nun-martyr Tatiana, and Martyrs Nicholas, Maria and Nadezhda (1937)
- Synaxis of the Saints of Vyatka.
