Artemidoros and Basil

Holy Martyrs Artemidoros and Basil.

Artemidoros and Basil are commemorated together in the Synaxarion of this day. Tradition relates that they confessed Christ and were beheaded; the details of their lives are not preserved.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Artemidoros and Basil is commemorated on October 26. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on November 8 of the civil calendar.

Also commemorated on October 26

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  Demetrios the Great Martyr

  Martyr, Δημήτριος ο Μεγαλομάρτυς

  Great Martyr Demetrios of Thessaloniki, Myrrh-Streamer.

  Name days: Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dimitri, Mimis, Takis, Demetrius, Demetrios, Jimmy, Dmitri, Dmitry, Mitsos, Jim, Demetris, Dimitra, Demetra, Dimitroula, Mimi, Demi

• Commemoration of the Great Earthquake

  Saint, Μνήμη Μεγάλου Σεισμού

  Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople in 740, from which the city was delivered by the prayers of the Theotokos and Saint Demetrios.

• Loupos the Martyr

  Martyr, Λούππος

  Holy Martyr Loupos, servant of Saint Demetrios of Thessalonica.

• Joasaph of Dionysiou

  Martyr, Ιωάσαφ ο Οσιομάρτυς

  Holy New Monk-Martyr Joasaph of Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos, who suffered at Constantinople in 1536.

• George of Ioannina (Translation of Relics)

  Saint, Γεώργιος ο εν Ιωαννίνοις

  Translation of the relics of the Holy New Martyr George of Ioannina.