Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostle James, Son of Alphaeus.Apostle
- Repose of St Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Confessor (1925)Confessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed · Repose · 1925
- Saints Andronicus and Athanasia (5th century)5th century
- Holy and Righteous Abraham and LotRighteous
- St Stephen the Blind, Prince of Serbia (1476)d. 1476
- Holy Hieromartyr Denis (Dionysius), first Bishop of Paris (c. 258)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. c. 258
- Poplia the Confessor of AntiochConfessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed
Appointed readings
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:1–9
- Hebrews 7:26–8:2
- John 10:9–16
- 1 Corinthians 4:9–16
- Matthew 9:36–10:8
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on October 9 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 22 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.