Venerable Theophilos the Confessor and Longinus the Stylite.
Theophilos the Confessor and Longinus the Stylite are commemorated together in the Synaxarion of this day. Theophilos suffered for the holy icons, and Longinus lived in asceticism upon a pillar.
The Church honors them among the venerable fathers who bore witness by confession and ascetic struggle.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Theophilos and Longinus the Stylite is commemorated on October 10. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on October 23 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on October 10
Bassianos of Constantinople
Venerable, Βασιανός
Venerable Bassianos, ascetic of Syria who founded a great monastery in Constantinople.
Ambrose of Optina
Venerable, Αμβρόσιος της Όπτινα
Venerable Ambrose, the great elder of Optina Monastery.
Twenty-six Martyrs of Zographou
Saint, Είκοσι Έξι Οσιομάρτυρες Ζωγραφίτες
The twenty-six Monk-Martyrs of Zographou Monastery on Mount Athos, burned by the Latinizers in 1276.
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