First Sunday in October – Terebovlanska Icon of the Mother of God
October 1/14 The Protection of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. Saint Roman the Melodist (556). Saint Petro K
alnyshevsky, Koshovey-Commander of the Zaporozhian Kozaks (glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyivan Patriarchate).
This is a great feast-day in Ukraine and commemorates several events during which the Mother of God appeared over embattled cities to save them with her Mantle of Protection (e.g. Pochaiv in 1675). St Petro was sent to the Solovki islands after the Sich was destroyed by Tsarist forces. He lived to be over 100 years old and lived in deep holiness of life at the Solovetsky monastery. He represents all the Holy Kozaks and those who died in battle fighting in defence of Holy Orthodoxy and against national oppression. On this feast day, it is also customary to commemorate the Ukrainian soldiers and fighters of various historical era of national struggle for freedom.
Icons of the Mother of God: Brailovska, Kasperivska, Herbovetska and Barska.
St Domna Slipchenko, Fool-for-Christ, Native of Poltava (1872).
Icon of the Theotokos of Brayiliv-Pochaiv at Brayiliv near Vinnitsa
October 2/15 St Anna, Princess of Kashin, (in monasticism Euphrosynia) wife of St Michael of Tver (1368). St Andrew the Scythian and his disciple St Epiphanij, who saw the Mother of God covering the people with her Mantle.
October 3/16 Finding of the relics in 1988 of St Joseph (Litovkin) of Optina (1911). St Dionisij, Bishop of Polotsk (1184). St Izyaslav, Kyivan Kniaz (1078). Commemoration of Blessed Fool-for-Christ and Staretz Paissy (Yarotsky) of the Kyiv Caves Lavra (1893).
October 4/17 St Volodymyr Yaroslavich, Prince of Novhorod and son of St Yaroslav the Wise (1052) and his mother St Anna of Novhorod, wife of St Yaroslav the Wise. Sts Helladius and Onesimus of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.)
Holy New Hieroconfessor Barsonophy (Yurchenko) of Crimea. St Ammon, recluse of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.). St Mstislav Udaly, Prince of Halychyna (1228). St Joachim of Korsun, Bishop of Novhorod (1030).
October 5/18 All Holy Metropolitans of Kyiv: Sts Michael, Ilarion, John, Macarius, Peter, Alexius, Jonah, Cyprian, Theohnost, Maximus, Peter Mohyla, Volodymyr the Protomartyr of the communist yoke, Konstantin Dyakiv and others. St Damian the Healer (1071) and Sts Jeremiah (1070) and Matthew (1085) Clairvoyants of the Kyiv Caves. St Seraphim, Schema-archimandrite of Hlinsk Hermitage (1958).
October 7/20 St Sergius the Obedient of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.). Priest-martyr St Nicholas Kazansky (1942).
October 8/21 St Anthony, Archbishop of Novhorod (1232). Commemoration of Pelahia Horlenko, first cousin of St Joasaph (Horlenko) Bishop of Bilhorod (18th c.).
October 9/22 Uncovering of the relics of St Job (Kundria) Uholsky. Korsun icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. Korsun Icon of the Mother of God
October 10/23
Synaxis of the Saints of Volyn: Sts Stephen and Amphilokhy, Bishops of Volodymyr-Volynsky; St Yaropolk-Petro, Prince of Volodymyr-Volynsky; St Theodore (Ostrozhky) of the Kyiv Caves; St Juliana, Princess of Olshansk; St Job of Pochaiv; Hieromartyr Macarius of Kaniv, Archimandrite of Obruch. Venerable St Theodosij, Ihumen of Manjava Skete. St Luke, Bishop of Rostov (1189). St Joasaph, Bishop of Volodymyr-Volyn (1229)
Feast of the Second Pokrova, the Icon of the Mother of God the Unmoveable Wall in the Cathedral of St Sophia of Kyiv.
Translation of the relics of St Philaret (Amphiteatrov) Metropolitan of Kyiv, of the Kyiv Caves Lavra.
New Martyr St Constantine Politansky (1742 - graduate of the Kyivan-Mohyla Academy, martyred by the Turks at Constantinople).
October 11/24 St Theophan, Faster of the Kyiv Caves. Synaxis of the Saints of Optina including the Holy Elder St Joseph (Litovkiin).
October 12/25 Holy Hieroconfessor St Mykola (Mohylevsky) Bishop of Starodub (1955). Jerusalem icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. Rudenska Icon of the Mother of God at the Florovsk Monastery of the Ascension at Kyiv.
October 13/26 St Benjamin of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.). Commemoration of Amvrossy (Serebrennikiv), Archbishop of Kherson (1792 – relics incorrupt).
Zvirinetska Icon of the Theotokos
October 14/27 St Parasceva-Pyatnitsa whose relics are in Jassy (11th c.). St Mykola-Svyatosha, Prince of Chernihiv and Wonderworker of the Kyiv Caves (1143). St Cosmas of Yakhromsk of the Kyiv Caves (1492)
Yakhromska icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.
October 15/28 Holy Hieromartyr St Lukian, priest of the Kyiv Caves (1243). Hieromartyr St Volodymyr Khirasko of Podilske (1918). Hieroconfessor St Athanasius (Sakharov), Poltava Seminary professor (1962).
October 16/29 St Longinus the Gate-keeper of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.).
October 17/30 Holy Martyrs and Unmercenaries Sts Cosmas and Damian and their brothers Martyrs Leontius, Anthimus and Eutropius (4th c.).
Commemoration of Elder Athanassy of Ploschansk Hermitage (1825) disciple of St Paisius Velichkovsky and of Nun Alypia, Fool for Christ, of Holosiyivsky Skete in Kyiv (1966). Commemoration of Blessed Alipia of the Holosiyivsky Monastery in Kyiv (1988). Hieroconfessor St Oleksiy Usenko of Kyiv (1937).
October 19/November 1 Venerable Schema-Archbishop St. Anthony (Abashidze) of the Kyiv Caves (1942). A Georgian, St Anthony took the monastic Schema at the Kyiv Caves and his relics are enshrined in front of the entrance to the Near Caves of St Anthony.
October 20/November 2 St Anastasia (Romanova) Founder of the Holy Protection Monastery in Kyiv (1900). St Anastasia, a member of the imperial Romanov family, was glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for her charitable work among the people in Kyiv following her estrangement from her husband, who had left her for another woman. After her husband’s death, she became a nun and founded the Holy Protection Monastery dedicated to helping the sick.
October 21/November 3 St Ilarion of the Kyiv Caves (1067). October 21Hieromartyr St Damian (Voskresensky) Archbishop of Poltava and Kursk (1937).
October 22/November 4 Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. Hieromartyr St Seraphim (Samoylovich) Archbishop of Uhlych, Native of Poltava (1937).
October 23/November 5 Saint Elisey Lavryshevsky (14th c.). Commemoration of Elder Theophane, Native of Poltava and Archimandrite (1982).
October 24/November 6 St Arethas, recluse of the Kyiv Caves (1190). St Theophilus the Silent of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.) St Sisoes of the Kyiv Caves (13th c.). The Icon of the Mother of God “the Sorrowful” at Prilutsk.
October 25/November 7 St Martyrius the Deacon of the Kyiv Caves and St Martyrius, Recluse of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.). St Markian, Ihumen of the Kyiv Zverynetsky Caves (1045).
October 26/November 8 Holy and Glorious Great-martyr St Demetrius the Myrrh-Gusher (306). St Lupus, servant of St Demetrius. St Theophilus of the Kyiv Caves, Archbishop of Novhorod (1482).
October 27/November 9 St Nestor of Thessalonica, Martyr and servant of St Demetrius. St Nestor the Chronicler of the Kyiv Caves (1114). Uncovering of the relics in Pereyaslavl-Zalissky in 1539 of St Andrew, Prince of Smolensk (1390).
October 28/November 10 St Nestor, not the Chronicler, of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.). Repose of St Job, Ihumen and Wonderworker of Pochaiv (1651). St Demetrius (Tuptalenko) Metropolitan of Rostov (1709). Repose of St Theophilus, Fool for Christ, of Kyiv (1853). Commemoration of Sche-Ihumen Adrian (Antoniv) of Poltava and Kozelschansk (1953).
October 29/November 11 St Abramius, Archimandrite of Rostov (1073).St Abramius the Recluse of the Kyiv Caves (14th c.).
October 30/November 12 St Eutropia (Isayenkiv) Nun in Crimea (1968). Venerable Martyr Volodymyr Cherkassky.
October 31/November 13 St Stachys, disciple of St Andrew the Apostle. Sts Spyridon (1148) and Nicodemus (12th c.), Prosphora-Bakers of the Kyiv Caves. St Anatolius, Recluse of the Kyiv Caves (12th c.). Hieromartyr St Sergius (Zveriv), Archbishop of Yeletsk (1937) .
