Orthodox saints and name days on October 28

Name days on October 28

Terentios

Saints and feasts of October 28

• Terentios and companions

  Martyr, Τερέντιος

  St. Terentios suffered for Christ in the early centuries of persecution together with his wife Neonilla and their children. Refusing to deny the faith in which they had raised their household, the whole family confessed Christ together and together received the crown of martyrdom.

  Name days: Terentios

• Protection of the Theotokos (Greek Observance)

  Great Feast, Αγία Σκέπη

  The Church of Greece in 1952 transferred the feast of the Protection of the Theotokos from October 1 to October 28, joining it to the national anniversary of the refusal of the Italian ultimatum in 1940, in thanksgiving for the protection of the Mother of God during the war.

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  Stephen the Sabbaite

  Venerable, Στέφανος ο Σαββαΐτης

  Stephen was a nephew of Saint John of Damascus and entered the Lavra of Saint Sabbas as a boy, where he was raised by his uncle. He became renowned for his asceticism, his gift of discernment, and the canons and hymns he composed.

• Athanasios I of Constantinople

  Hierarch, Αθανάσιος Α' Πατριάρχης

  Born Alexios in Adrianople around 1230, he became a monk on Mount Athos and in Palestine and lived in great austerity on Mount Ganos. He was made Patriarch of Constantinople in 1289 and again in 1303.

• Kyriakos of Jerusalem

  Hierarch, Κυριακός ο Ιερομάρτυς

  Judas, a Jew of Jerusalem, revealed to the empress Helen the place where the Cross of Christ lay hidden. Coming to faith, he was baptized with the name Kyriakos and later became Bishop of Jerusalem.

• New Martyrs of Melambes

  Martyr, Αγγελής, Μανουήλ, Γεώργιος και Νικόλαος

  Angelis, Manuel, George and Nicholas were Christians of the village of Melambes in Crete who had been forced to profess Islam outwardly. In 1824, during the Cretan uprising, they openly returned to the faith of Christ.

• Arsenios of Serbia

  Hierarch, Αρσένιος Αρχιεπίσκοπος Σερβίας

  Arsenios was a monk of Zica under Saint Sava, who made him abbot and, on leaving for the Holy Land, appointed him his successor as Archbishop of Serbia in 1233.