23 Октября 1870 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Sunday, October 23, 1870 (October 11, 1870 by the Julian calendar)
20^th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone two

Holy Apostle Philip of the Seventy, one of the seven deacons (1st c.). St. Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer, bishop of Nicaea (850). St. Leonid of Optina. Synaxis of the Saints of Optina: St. Leonid (repose) (1841), St. Macarius (1860), St. Moses (1862), St. Anthony (1865), St. Hilarion (1873), St. Ambrose (1891), St. Anatole (the "Elder") (1894), St. Isaac I (1894), St. Joseph (1911), St. Barsanuphius (1913), St. Anatole (the "Younger") (1922), St. Nektary (1928), St. Nikon the Confessor (1931), New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Isaac II (1937). New Hieromartyr Philaret priest (1918). New Hieromartyr Juvenalius (Maslovsky) bishop of Riazan (1937). St. Theophanes, faster of the Kiev Caves (12th c.). Martyrs Zenaida (Zenais) and Philonilla of Tarsus in Cilicia (1st c.). Sts. Nectarius (397), Arcadius (405), and Sinisius (427), patriarchs of Constantinople. St. Gommar, patron of Lier (775) (Neth.). St. Ethelburga, abbess of the monastery of Barking (England) (676) (Celtic & British.). St. Cainnech (Kenneth), abbot of Aghaboe (Ireland) (600) (Celtic & British). St. Philotheus (Kokkinos) of Mt. Athos, patriarch of Constantinople (1379). Commemoration of the miracle from the Icon of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Beirut of Phonecia.