21st of October

The 21st of this month, Memory of our Holy Father HILARION the GREAT; the Holy Martyrs GAIUS, DASIUS and ZOTICUS, who died by drowning; the Holy Hieromartyr SOCRATES; our Holy Father PHILOTHEUS, who led the ascetic life on the Holy Mountain of Athos; the Holy New Martyr JOHN of MONEMBRASIA, who was tortured to death at Larissa, in 1773; the Venerable HILARION of the Lavra of the KIEV CAVES; the Venerable HILARION of PSKOV; Saint HILARION, Bishop of MEGLIN; the Holy Confessors and New Martyrs BESSARION, SOPHRONIUS and OPREA of Romania; the Holy Priests and Confessors MOSES MACINIC of SIBIU and JOHN of GALES; our Holy Fathers THEOPHILUS and his Disciple JAMES, Founders of the Skate of the Mother of God at OMUTCH; the Holy Martyr URSULA and her Companions, who suffered at COLOGNE; Memory of our Venerable Father FINTAN of TAGHMON