Antigonos, Loukianos, Terentios, Nikomedes and Theophanes

Holy Martyrs Antigonos, Loukianos, Terentios, Nikomedes and Theophanes.

These five martyrs are commemorated together in the Synaxarion of this day. Tradition relates that they confessed Christ and were put to death for the faith; the details of their sufferings are not preserved.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Antigonos, Loukianos, Terentios, Nikomedes and Theophanes is commemorated on October 17. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on October 30 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on October 17

• 

  Osee the Prophet

  Prophet, Ωσηέ

  Prophet Hosea.

  Name days: Osee, Hosea

• Andrew of Crete the Monk-Martyr

  Martyr, Ανδρέας ο εν τη Κρίσει

  Holy Monk-Martyr Andrew of Crete, slain in Constantinople for the holy icons.

• Kosmas and Damianos of Arabia

  Martyr, Κοσμάς, Δαμιανός, Λεόντιος, Άνθιμος και Ευπρέπιος

  Holy Unmercenaries Kosmas and Damianos of Arabia and their brothers Leontios, Anthimos and Euprepios, martyred in Cilicia.

• Lazarus the Four-Days-Dead (Translation of Relics)

  Saint, Λάζαρος ο Τετραήμερος

  Translation of the relics of Saint Lazarus, friend of Christ and Bishop of Kition, to Constantinople.

  Name days: Lazaros, Lazarus, Lazar

• Isidora and Neophyte

  Holy Woman, Ισιδώρα και Νεοφύτη

  Holy Women Isidora and Neophyte.

  Name days: Isidora, Neophyte, Neofyti