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September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 21

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 7.

Saints

  • Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas, his wife Martyr Theopistes, and their sons Martyrs Agapius and Theopistus, of Rome (118)
  • Martyrs Artemidorus and Thallos, by the sword.
  • Martyr John the Confessor, of Egypt, beheaded in Palestine, and with him 40 martyrs (295 or 310)
  • Saints Theodore and Euprepius, and two men named Anastasius (7th century), confessors and disciples of Saint Maximos the Confessor.
  • Hieromartyrs Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus and Andrew the Presbyter, Confessors of the Holy Icons, under Leo III the Isaurian (8th century)
  • Venerable John the Godbearer, of Crete, monk (1031)
  • Venerable Meletius of Cyprus, Bishop.
  • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Candida, a virgin-martyr in Carthage in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus (c. 300)
  • Saint Glycerius, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (438)
  • Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536) (see also: April 17 in the East)
  • Saint Vincent Madelgarius, Benedictine monk (677)
  • Saint Eusebia of Saint-Cyr, Benedictine Abbess of a convent in Marseilles in France, martyred with some forty nuns by the Saracens at Saint-Cyr (c. 731)
  • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Eustathius of Thessalonica, Archbishop of Thessalonica (1197)
  • Holy Martyrs Blessed Prince Michael of Chernigov, and his counsellor Theodore of Chernigov, Wonderworkers (1245)
  • Saint Oleg Romanovich, Prince of Bryansk (1285)
  • Right-believing Prince John of Putyvl, Ukraine (14th century)
  • New Monk-martyr Hilarion the Cretan, of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1804)
  • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky), Archbishop of Irkutsk (1925)
  • New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus Smelnitsky and Alexander Tetiuyev, Priests (1937)
  • Other Commemorations

  • Synaxis of the icon of Panagia Voulkaniotissa, in Messinia (1755)
  • Synaxis of the Saints of Bryansk.
  • References

    September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia