---
title: "October 23, 2026 — Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia"
description: "Friday, October 23, 2026. 10 October (Old Style). Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia. Fast day"
url: "https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10-23"
language: "en"
---

Friday

# October 23, 2026

10 October (Old Style) · 21st week after Pentecost

Russian Orthodox Church (Old Calendar)

[Old Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10-23) [New Style](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/new-style/2026-10-23)

[Month calendar](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/calendar/2026-10)

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## Events of the day

- Martyrs Eulampius and Eulampia

  Commemoration

## Fasting

Fast day · Wednesday / Friday

Wednesday and Friday: fast without meat, dairy or eggs. Whether fish is allowed depends on the day's feast — check the church calendar.

- Meat: not allowed
- Dairy & eggs: not allowed
- Fish: not specified
- Oil: allowed
- Wine: allowed

Food rules are reference church information. Agree your personal measure of fasting with a priest; consult a doctor if you are ill.

## Readings of the day

- Epistle

  Colossians 2:1–7

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  1 For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

  2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

  3 in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

  4 Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

  6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

  7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

- Gospel

  Luke 7:31–35

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  31 “To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?

  32 They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

  33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

  34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

  35 Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Source: Orthocal: lectionary data — Slavic tradition, Julian calendar. Text: World English Bible.

## Saints and icons

- Prayer of the day: [Short penitential prayers](https://spas.life/en/orthodoxy/prayers/penitential-short)