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September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 22

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 8.

Feasts

  • Apodosis of the Exaltation of the Cross.

    • Saints

  • Prophet Jonah (8th century BC) (see also: September 22 )
  • Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy, Apologist (c. 130)
  • Martyr Eusebius of Phoenicia (2nd century)
  • Holy Six Martyrs, by the sword (298)
  • Martyr Priscus of Phrygia.
  • Martyrs Eusebius, Nestabus, Zeno, brothers, with Nestor and Busiris, of Gaza (360-363)
  • Martyr Bassa of Tyre.
  • Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus, and his Presbyter Andrew (730)
  • Venerable Jonah the Sabbaite (9th century)
  • Venerables Isaacius (Akakios) and Meletius, Bishops of Sitis (Σίτης) in Cyprus.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Alexander, a bishop in the neighbourhood of Rome (2nd century)
  • Saint Pamphilus, a marytr in Rome.
  • Saint Mabyn (Mabena), a Cornish saint (6th century)
  • Saint Gerulfus (Gerulph), a saint of Flanders (c. 746)
  • Saint Maura, a holy virgin in Troyes, she reposed at the age of twenty-three after a life of prayer and good works (850)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Daniel, founder of Shuzhgorsk Monastery, Belozersk (16th century)
  • Saint Joseph, founder of Zaonikiev Monastery, Vologda (1612)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Alexander Fedoseyev, Alexis Stabnikov, Constantine Shirokinsky, and John Flerov, Priests (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr Platon (Aivazidis) of Amasya, Metropolitan of Amasya (1921)
  • New Hieromartyr Theophan (Tuliakov), Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Belorussia (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Maurice (Poletaev), Archimandrite, of Yuriev-Polsky, and with him Martyr Basil Kondratiev (1937)
  • New Hieromartyrs Valentine Nikolsky, Alexander Belyakov, John Lazarev, Andrew Benedictov, Peter Sakharovsky, and John Nikolsky, Priests (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr John Bystrov, Priest (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Basil Krymkin, Priest (1942)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Uncovering of the relics (1752) of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov (1709)
  • Repose of Arseny (Chagovstsov), Archbishop of Winnipeg (1945)
  • Repose of Priest Dumitru Staniloae of Romania (1993)
  • Synaxis of the Saints of Uglich.
  • Synaxis of the Church of "Panagia Giatrissa" ("The Healer"), on Therasia in the Greek Cyclades (1950s)

    • References

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