Friday, 23 October 2026
10 October 2026 on the Old calendar
- ✚Saint Ambrose, Elder of Optina, the Wonderworker († 1891)
Liturgical colour: dark (strict fast)
Saints of the day
- Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia, at Nicomedia, and 200 martyrs with them († 303-311)
- Свт. Иннокентия, епископа Пензенского (1819)
- Martyr Theotecnus
- Venerable Bassian of Constantinople
- Venerable Theophilus
- Saints Stephen and Amphilochius, Bishops of Volodymyr Volynsky
- Blessed Andrew of Totemsk, the Fool-for-Christ († 1673)
- Synaxis of the 7 saints of Volyn in rememberance of the return of the Pochaev Lavra to the Orthodox in 1831: Venerable Job of Pochaev
- Synaxis of the Optina Elders: Leo, Macarius, Ambrose, Moses, Anthony, Hillarion, Isaac (the first), Anatoly (the elder), Joseph, Barsonophius, Anatoly (the younger), Nectarius, Isaac (the second), and Nikon
Fasting
Strict fastPlant food without oil.
Fasting is personal; ask your priest.