Venerable
Saint Ambrose, Elder of Optina, the Wonderworker († 1891)
In Russian: Прп. Амвросия Оптинского (1891)
In Church Slavonic: Прпⷣбнагѡ а҆мвро́сїа ѻ҆́птинскагѡ (1891)
Born: 1812. Died: 1891
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (10 October on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
2027
Old calendar
- (10 October on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
Also commemorated on 23 October 2026
- 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