October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
October 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 4
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 16 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 20.
Saints
Hieromartyr Dionysius of Athens, Bishop of Athens, and with him the priest Rusticus and the deacon Eleutherius, martyrs- Saint Damaris of Athens, a disciple of St. Dionysius of Athens '
- Hieromartyrs Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria, and eight other martyrs including the Deacons Gaius, Faustus, Eusebius and Chaeremon
- Martyr Theoctistus, by the sword.
- Martyr Theagenes, by fire.
- Martyr Theoteknos, by stoning.
- Saint Adauctus. 'Saint John the Chozebite, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine
- Blessed Hesychius the Silent, of Mt. Horeb
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Candidus, a martyr in Rome, buried on the Esquiline Hill.
- Saint Menna, a holy virgin from Lorraine in France, related to Sts Eucherius and Elaptius
- Saint Maximian, a convert from Donatism, he became Bishop of Bagaia in Numidia in North Africa
- Saint Cyprian of Toulon, a monk at St Victor at Marseilles and Bishop of Toulon in France
- Hieromartyrs Hewald the White and Hewald the Black, at Cologne
- Saint Widradus, restorer of the monastery of Flavigny near Dijon in France, also founded the monastery of Saulieu
- Saint Utto, founder of Metten Abbey in Bavaria in Germany
- Saint Gérard of Brogne, Abbot of Brogne
- Saint Froilan, Bishop of Léon
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- ''Venerable Dionysius of the Kiev Caves, recluse''
New Martys and Confessors
- New Hiero-confessor Agathangelus, Metropolitan of Yaroslavl
Other commemorations
- Trubchevsk Icon of the Mother of God, located in the Troitse-Scanov Convent.
- Repose of Blessed Olga, Fool-for-Christ, of Bogdanoya Bari and St. Petersburg
- Repose of Saint Ieronymos the Cappadocian of Aegina
- Uncovering of the relics of St. Joseph (Litovkin), Elder of Optina Monastery
- The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople resolved to glorify seven New Martyrs of Kastoria: