October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
October 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 25
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 11.
Saints
Martyr Sebastiani- Martyrs Sotiricus and Valentinos, from Asia Minor, by being dragged over sharp stones.
- Hieromartyr Akakios the Presbyter, by the sword.
- Martyr Nerdonus, by fire.
- Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople Great-martyr Arethas of Omir and 4,299 martyrs with him, including Martyr Syncletica and her two daughters
- A holy woman martyr and her child, together with Martyr Arethas of Omir and his companions
- Blessed Elesbaan, King of Ethiopia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Felix (Africanus), Audactus, Januarius, Fortunatus and Septimus
- Saint Evergislus, a Bishop of Cologne in Germany, martyred by heathen robbers
- Saint Maglorius of Sark, Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne in Brittany
- Saint Senoch the Healer, Abbot, of Tours, Gaul
- Saint Cadfarch, a disciple of St Iltyd, he founded churches in Penegoes and Abererch in Wales
- Saint Martin of Vertou, founder of the monastery of Vertou near Nantes, also of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes and other monasteries
- Saint Marcius, a hermit at Montecassino in Italy
- Saint Fromundus, Monk, Abbot and then Bishop of Coutances in France
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Arethas, recluse, of the Kiev Caves
- Venerable Sisoes of the Kiev Caves
- Venerable Theophilus the Silent, of the Kiev Caves
- Saint Athanasius I of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople
- Saint John, recluse, of the Pskov Caves
- Venerable Zosima, Elder, of Siberia
- Saint George the New Confessor, of Drama, Greece
New Martys and Confessors
- New Hieromartyr Lawrence, Bishop of Balakhnin, and Alexis Porfiriev, Archpriest, and with them New Martyr Alexis Neidhardt
- New Hieromartyr Arethas, Hieromonk of Valaam,
- New Hieromartyrs John Smirnov and Nicholas Nikolsky, Priests
- New Martyr Peter Bogorodsky, Priest
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos The "Joy of All Who Sorrow"- Repose of Blessed Eudocia of Ryazan
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Barsanuphius of Valaam