17 Октября 1956 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, October 17, 1956 (October 4, 1956 by the Julian calendar)
17^th Week after Pentecost, Tone seven

Hieromartyr Hierotheus, bishop of Athens (1st c.). [.:] Uncovering of the relics (1595) of St. Gurias, first archbishop of Kazan (1563) and St. Barsanuphius, bishop of Tver (1576). Synaxis of All Saints of Kazan. New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest (1918). New Hieromartyrs Demetrius priest Nicolos, Micael, Jacob and Tikhon priests (1937). St. Khionia confessor (1945). St. Vladimir Yaroslavich, prince of Novgorod (1052), and his mother, St. Anna of Novgorod (1050). Sts. Helladius, Onesimus, and Ammon of the Kiev Caves (12th c.). Martyrs Gaius, Faustus, Eusebius, and Chaeremon of Alexandria (3rd c.). Hieromartyr Peter of Capitolia, bishop of Bostra (715). Martyrs Domnina and her daughters Berenice (Bernice) and Prosdoce, of Syria (4th c.). St. Paul the Simple (340) and St. Ammon (350), of Egypt, disciples of St. Anthony the Great. Martyr Adauctus and his daughter St. Callisthene, of Ephesus (4th c.). Martyr Stephen (Stiljanovich) of Serbia (1515) and his wife, St. Elena (Serbia). Blessed Elizabeth of Serbia (Greek). St. Theodore the Wonderworker, bishop of Tamassos in Cyprus (2nd. c.). St. John (Lampadistes) of Cyprus (10th c.). Sts. Jonah and Nectarius of Kazan, monks (16th c.). Hieromartyr Eudemoz, catholicos of Georgia (1642). St. Peter (Michurin) of Siberia (1820).