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+ Days highlighted in yellow are major feast days. Music for their apolytikia, kontakia, idiomela, and doxastica are ready now.
+ Days highlighted in blue are minor feast days. Their apolytikia are ready now. Music for the rest of the troparia on these days should be ready in 2010.
+ Days not highlighted are minor days without doxastica. Their apolytikia are ready now.
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| 1 - Holy Protection of the Theotokos | ||
| 1 - St. Ananias | ||
| 1 - St. Romanus the Melodist | ||
| 2 - Sts. Cyprian and Justina | ||
| 3 - St. Dionysius the Areopagite | ||
| 4 - St. Hierotheus | ||
| 5 - St. Charitina; Hierarchs of Moscow Peter, Alexis, Jonas, Philip, Hermogenes, and Tikhon | ||
| 6 - Apostle Thomas | ||
| 7 - Sts. Sergius and Bacchus | ||
| 8 - St. Pelagia | ||
| 9 - Apostle James, Son of Alphaeus | ||
| 9 - Sts. Andronicus and Athanasia | ||
| 9 - Righteous Patriarch Abraham | ||
| 10 - Sts. Eulampius and Eulampia | ||
| 10 - Righteous Fathers of Optina | ||
| 11-17 The Sunday of the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council | ||
| 11 - Apostle Philip | ||
| 11 - St. Theophanes the Branded | ||
| 12 - St. Symeon the New Theologian | ||
| 12 - Sts. Probus, Tarachus, and Andronicus | ||
| 13 - Sts. Carpus and Papylus | ||
| 14 - Sts. Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, and Celsus | ||
| 14 - St. Cosmas the Hymnographer | ||
| 15 - St. Lucian | ||
| 16 - St. Longinus the Centurion | ||
| 17 - Prophet Hosea | ||
| 17 - St. Andrew in "The Judgment" | ||
| 17 - St. Susanna, Queen of Georgia | ||
| 17 - St. Etheldreda of Ely (see Additional Troparia) | ||
| 18 - Apostle Luke the Evangelist | ||
| 19 - Prophet Joel | ||
| 19 - St. Varus | ||
| 19 - St. John of Rila | ||
| 19 - St. John of Kronstadt | ||
| 20 - St. Artemius | ||
| 20 - St. Gerasimus of Cephalonia | ||
| 21 - St. Hilarion | ||
| 22 - St. Abercius | ||
| 22 - The Seven Youths of Ephesus | ||
| 23 - Apostle James, the Brother of God | ||
| 24 - St. Arethas | ||
| 25 - Sts. Marcian and Martyrius | ||
| 25 - St.Tabitha the Almsgiver (see Additional Troparia) | ||
| 26 - St. Demetrius the Myrrh-streamer, Commemoration of the Earthquake | ||
| 27 - St. Nestor | ||
| 28 - Holy Protection of the Theotokos | ||
| 28 - Sts. Terence and Neonilla | ||
| 28 - St. Stephen of Mar Sabbas Monastery | ||
| 29 - St. Anastasia of Rome | ||
| 29 - St. Abramius | ||
| 30 - Sts. Zenobius and Zenobia | ||
| 31 - Apostles Stachys, Apelles, Amplia, Urban, Narcissus, and Aristobulus | ||
| 31 - St. Epimachus | ||
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To download all music for October in Byzantine notation, click here (158 pages, 11 Mb)
To download all apolytikia for the entire year in Byzantine notation, click here (0000 pages, 000 Mb)
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