October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
September 30 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 2
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 14 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 18.
Feasts
The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, at the Blachernae church in Constantinople ''''Saints
Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles- Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica
- Ezana of Axum, king of Ethiopia.
- King Mirian III of Iberia and Queen Nana of Mtskheta - Equals-of-the-Apostles, St. Abiathar of Mtskheta, and St. Sidonia, disciple of St. Nina Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer"
- Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sebaste, and 36 fathers with him
- Venerable Melchizedek I, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Piatus of Tournai, he enlightened the areas around Tournai in Belgium and Chartres in France
- Martyrs Verissimus, Maxima and Julia, in Portugal under Diocletian
- Martyrs Aretas, and five-hundred-and-four other martyrs, at Rome.
- Saint Aladius, Bishop of Toul in France.
- Saint Wasnulf, missionary in Condé-sur-l'Escaut in Hainaut, Austrasia.
- Saint Bavo of Ghent, penitent and hermit, confessor and patron of Haarlem in the Netherlands
- Saint Dodo, Abbot of Wallers-en-Faigne
- Saint Fidharleus, restorer of the monastery of Rathin in Ireland
- Martyr-prince Mylor of Brittany.
- Saint Virila, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Leyre in Spain
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Gregory the Singer of the Great Lavra of Mount Athos
- Saint John Kukuzelis of Mount Athos
- Venerable Sabbas, abbot of Vishera in Novgorod, the Wonderworker
New Martys and Confessors
- New Hieromartyr Alexis Stavrovsky, priest
- New Hieromartyr Michael, priest of Krasnoyarsk.
- New Hieromartyr George, priest
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Agafonikov, Gregory, Nicholas Kuligin, priests
- Martyr John Artemov
- New Hieromartyr Archpriest Ismael of Strelna, St. Petersburg
- New Hieromartyr Theodore
Other commemorations
- Commemoration of the Apparition of the Pillar over the Robe of the Lord at Mtskheta, Georgia Translation of the relics of Saint Remigius of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks
- Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Gorgoepikoos, at the Dochiariou monastery on Mount Athos Synaxis of the Saints of Moldova.
- Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Euthemius of Valaam
Icons
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Pokrov”
- Icon of the Theotokos of Brayiliv-Pochaiv at Brayiliv near Vinnitsa.
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Lublin
- Transfer of the Terebovlya Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God from Terebovlya to Lvov
- Icon of the Mother of God of Gerbovets
- Icon of the Mother of God of Kasperov, defended the city of Odessa during the Crimean War
- Icon of the Mother of God of Barsk
- Icon of the Mother of God “Eleutherotrias” ''''