Orthodox calendar: October 17 – discovery of the relics of Saints Guria, Archbishop of Kazan and Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tvertranslated

20th Week after Pentecost.

Today, October 17, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the saint during divine services. Hierothea, bishop Athenian (I); finding the relics of St. Guria, Archbishop Kazansky, and Barsanuphius, bishop. Tverskoy (1595); Cathedral of Kazan Saints; blgv. book Vladimir Yaroslavich of Novgorod, miracle worker (1052); prpp. Elladiya and Onisima of Pechersk, in the Near Caves (XII–XIII); St. Ammon, the recluse of Pechersk, in the Far Caves (XIII); mchch. Gaius, Faustus, Eusebius and Herimon (III); sschmch. Peter of Capetolia (III–IV); mcc. Domnina and her daughters Virinea (Veronica) and Proskudia (Prosdoki) (305–306); St. Ammon (about 350); St. Paul the Simple (IV); mchch. Davikta (Adavkta) and his daughter Callisthenia (IV); St. Stefan Šiljanović (1515) (Serb.); sschmch. Demetrius of Ascension presbyter (1918); sschmchch. Nikolai Vereshchagin, Mikhail Tverdovsky, Jacob Bobyrev and Tikhon of Arkhangelsk presbyters, martyr. Vasily Tsvetkov (1937); St. Khionia Arkhangelsk Spanish. (1945).

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The discovery of the relics of Saints Guria, Archbishop of Kazan, and Barsanuphius, Bishop of Tver, took place in 1595 in Kazan. During the construction of a new stone church in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord in…