Wednesday, October 8/21, 2026. 21st Week after Pentecost. Fast Day.
St. Pelagia the Penitent, of the Mount of Olives (457).
Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Antioch (303). St. Thais (Taisia) of Egypt (4th c.). St. Anthony, archbishop of Novgorod (1232). St. Dositheus, founder of Verkhneostrov (Pskov) (1482). St. Tryphon, archimandrite, of Vyatka (1612). Synaxis of the Saints of Vyatka.
New Hieromartyrs Demetrius (Dobroserdov), archbishop of Mozhaisk, Ambrose (Astakhov), archimandrite, of Aksinyino (Moscow), Pachomius (Turkevich), abbot, of Moscow, and John Khrenov, deacon, and with them Monkmartyr Barlaam, Nun-martyr Tatiana, and Martyrs Nicholas, Maria, and Nadezhda (1937). New Hieromartyrs Jonah (Lazarev), bishop of Velizhsk, Seraphim Shchelokov, archimandrite, of Kashira, Peter Nekotin, archpriest, of Moscow, and Paul Preobrazhensky, archpriest, of Sinkovo (Moscow) (1937).
New Monk-martyr Ignatius of Bulgaria and Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1814). St. Triduana of Scotland (4th c. or 8th c.)