October 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 6
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 18 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For October 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 22.Saints
- Hieromartyrs Dionysius of Alexandria, Bishop of Alexandria, and the Deacons Gaius and Faustus
- Martyr Charitina of Amisus
- Hieromartyr Hermogenes the Wonderworker, Bishop of Samos, whose relics are in Cyprus.
- Martyr Mamelta of Persia
- Saint Gregory, Archimandrite of Khandzta in the Klarjeti desert, Georgia
- St. Cosmas, Abbot, in Bithynia
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Palmatius and Companions, martyrs in Trier in Germany under Maximian Herculeus
- Saint Boniface, one of the martyrs with St Palmatius and Companions in Trier in Germany
- Saint Alexander, one of the 'innumerable multitude' martyred in Trier in Germany under Diocletian
- Saint Marcellinus of Ravenna, the second or third Bishop of Ravenna in Italy
- Saints Firmatus, a Deacon, and Flaviana, a virgin, venerated as martyrs in Auxerre in France.
- Saint Apollinaris of Valence, Bishop of Valence
- Saint Galla of Rome, a lady in Rome who, as a widow, led the life of an anchoress on the Vatican Hill, where she died of breast cancer
- Saint Magdalveus, a monk at St Vannes and later Bishop of Verdun
- Saint Meinulph, founder of the monastery of :de:Böddeken|Böddeken in Westphalia in Germany
- Saint Aymard of Cluny, Abbot of Cluny in France
- Saint Attilanus, a Spanish Benedictine and Bishop of Zamora, he was prior of Moreruela Abbey
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saints Damian the Healer, and Saints Jeremiah and Matthew, clairvoyants, of the Kiev Caves.
- Saint John, Metropolitan of Euchaita
- Saint Charitina, Princess of Lithuania
- Saint Sabbas the Fool-for-Christ, of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos
- Saint Varlaam, desert-dweller of Chikoysk
- Venerable Methodia, recluse, of Kimolos
- Saint Seraphim, schema-archimandrite of Glinsk Hermitage
New Martys and Confessors
- New Hiero-confessor Gabriel, Archimandrite, of Melekess, Confessor
Other commemorations
- Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers and Mothers of the Klarjeti Wilderness, holy fellow-strugglers of St. Gregory of Khandzta
- Synaxis of the Hierarchs of Moscow:
- Synaxis of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Iberian Peninsula —
- Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Eudocimus the Unknown, monk of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos.
- Uncovering of the relics of New Hiero-confessor Basil, Bishop of Kineshma
- Repose of Nun Agnia of Novgorod
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Paisius of Sihastria, Romania
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