October 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke
• Hieromartyr Mnason of Cyprus, Bishop, by the sword
• Holy 40 children-martyrs, by the sword.
• Hieromartyr Cyriacus, Chorepiscopus of Jerusalem
• Martyr Marinus the Elder, at Anazarbus
• Venerable Julian the Hermit, of the Euphrates, in Mesopotamia
• Venerables Symeon and Theodore of Thessaloniki, founders of the Mega Spilaion Monastery in Kalavryta, and Euphrosyne the shepherdess who found the Icon of the Mother of God, Wonderworkers

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Justus of Beauvais, a child-martyr aged nine, he was venerated in Beauvais in France
• Saint Tryphonia, a widow martyred in Rome
• Saint Gwen, a holy woman murdered by heathen in Talgarth in Wales, daughter of St. Brychan
• Saints Gwen and Selevan, martyred Welsh missionaries, in Brittany
• Saints Brothen and Gwendolen
• Saint Monon, hermit in the Ardennes
• Saint James the Deacon, companion of St Paulinus of York in his mission to Northumbria

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint David of Serpukhov, Abbot
• New Martyrs Gabriel and Cirmidol, of Egypt
• New martyr Chryse of Meglen
• Saint Peter of Montenegro, Metropolitan of Cetinje
• New Hieromartyr Isidore, and his two children George and Irene, martyred under the Ottomans, newly revealed in 1953.

  New Martys and Confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Andrey Voskresensky, Sergius Bazhanov, Nicholas Sokolov and Sergius Gusev, Priests
• Virgin-martyr Elizabeth Krymova

  Other commemorations

• Synaxis of the Icon of Panagia of Machairas Monastery in Cyprus, one of the 70 icons of her written by the Apostle Luke.
• Translation of the relics of Venerable Joseph of Volokolamsk, founder of Volokolamsk Monastery.
• 1997 slaying of José Muñoz Cortés, guardian of the myrrh-streaming "Montreal" copy of the Panagia Portaitissa icon

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