October 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Oct. 17

Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on October 29 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Martyr Longinus the Centurion who stood at the Cross of the Lord (1st century)
• Martyrs Isaurus and Aphrodisius, who suffered with St. Longinus (1st century)
• St. Malus the hermit
• St. Eupraxia, abbess, before tonsure Princess Euphrosyne of Pskov (1243)
• St. Longinus the gate-keeper of the Kiev Caves (13th - 14th centuries)
• St. Longinus of Yarenga (Solovki) (1544-45)
• St. Gall, Enlightener of Switzerland (c. 646)
• St. Sabinus, monk
• St. Domna, fool-for-Christ of Tomsk (1872)

Other commemorations

Repose of Patriarch Adrian of Moscow (1700) and Abbot Neonil of Neamts, Romania (1853).

References

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