September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Sep. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 24

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 10.

Saints

Saints Xanthippe and Polyxena, of Spain, disciples of the Apostles (109)

Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais, Raissa) of Alexandria (308)

Martyrs Andrew and John, and his sons Peter and Antoninus, of Syracuse, martyred in Africa (9th century)

Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome (c. 79) (In the East: January 4 and November 5)

Saint Paternus (Pair), Bishop of Avranches (c. 563)

Saint Constantius, sacristan of the ancient church of St Stephen in Ancona in Italy (6th century)

Saint Adomnán, Abbot of Iona, biographer of Saint Columba (704)

Saint Cissa of Crowland, a disciple of St Guthlac at Crowland in England (early 8th century)

New Martyr Nicholas the Grocer ("O Pantopolis"), at Constantinople (1672)

New Martyr John of Konitsa, Epirus, by beheading (1814)

New Hieromartyr Gregory (Kalamaras), Metropolitan of Argos and Nauplion, Ethnomartyr (1821)

New Hieromartyr John Pankratovich, Priest (1937)

New Hieromartyr Arsenius, Archimandrite (1937)

The Conception of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.

Icon of the Mother of God of Slovenka (Solvenskaya) (1635)

Repose of Abbess Eupraxia of Old Ladoga Convent (1823)

Repose of Hieroschemamonk Jerome of Solovki (1847)

Glorification (1977) of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879)

Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Theotokos "Hawaiian" (2007)

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