October 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Prophet Hosea (Osee) (820 BC) (see also: December 4, July 4) • Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian, and their brothers, martyrs Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius, in Cilicia (4th century) • Saints Antigonus, Loukianos, Terentius, Nicomedes and Theophanis. • Saints Isidora and Neophyte. • Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475) ==Pre-Schism Western saints==

• Saint Ignatius of Antioch, called 'the God-bearer', Bishop of Antioch (107) (see also: December 20 - East) • Saint Solina, born in Gascony in France, she escaped to Chartres to avoid marriage to a pagan, was beheaded in Chartres (c. 290) • Saint Florentius of Orange, the eighth Bishop of Orange in the south of France (c. 526) • Saint Berarius, Bishop of Le Mans in France (c. 680) • Saint Nothhelm, eleventh Archbishop of Canterbury and a friend of St Bede and St Boniface (739) ==Post-Schism Orthodox saints==

• Martyr Kozman (Kosmas), of Georgia. • Venerable Anthony, founder of Leokhnov Monastery, Novgorod (1611) • Saint Ioseb (Jandierishvili) the Wonderworker, Catholicos of Georgia (1770) New Martys and Confessors • New Hieromartyrs Neophyt Lyubimov and Anatoly Ivanovsky, Priests (1918) • New Monk-martyrs Jacinthus Pitatelev and Callistus Oparin, of the St. Nicholas Monastery, Verkhoturye (1918) ==Other commemorations==

• Translation of the relics (695) of St. Etheldreda, Royal Abbess of Ely (679) (see also: June 23 ) • Translation of the relics (898) of St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days" (in the tomb), Bishop of Kition in Cyprus (1st century) • Icon of the Mother of God "In Giving Birth, you Preserved your Virginity" (1827) • Icon of the Mother of God the "Deliveress" / Rescuer (1889) (see also: October 1, October 28 and April 4) • Synaxis of the Patron Saints of the Holy Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina, in Greece. • Repose of Elder Athanasius (Zakharov) of Ploshchansk Hermitage (1825), disciple of St. Paisius (Velichkovsky). • Repose of Nun Alypia, Fool-for-Christ, of Goloseyevo, Kiev (1988) ==Icon gallery==

File:Hosea (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Prophet Hosea (Osee). File:Hosea.jpg|Prophet Hosea (Osee). File:Cosmas and Damian in Cilicia, and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian, and their brothers Leontius, Anthimus, and Eutropius. File:Светитељи Козма и Дамјан.jpg|Holy Martyrs and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian. File:Shushanik.jpg|Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia. File:KocaMustafaPashaMosque20072812 03.jpg|The former Church of the monastery of Hagios Andreas "en te Krisei". File:Alex shukin 2010.jpg|New Hieromartyr Alexander (Shchukin), Archbishop of Semipalatinsk. File:St-aethelthryth.jpg|St. Etheldreda, Royal Abbess of Ely. File:Larnaka - St.Lazarus Krypta 2 Lazarus-Ikone.jpg|St. Lazarus "Of the Four Days". ==Notes==