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September 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 11.

Saints

  • Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla of Iconium (1st century)
  • Saint Persa (Persis, Persida).
  • Venerable Coprius of Palestine, monk (530)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Anathalon (Anatolius), fhe first Bishop of Milan (1st century)
  • Saints Andochius, Thyrsus and Felix, marytrs in Gaul (2nd century)|group=note
  • Saint Rusticus, Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne in France (446)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Abramius, first Abbot of Mirozh Monastery in Pskov (1158)
  • Saints Stephen the First-Crowned (in monasticism Simon) (1224), David (13th century), and Stephen Vladislav (after 1264), of Serbia.
  • Monk-martyr Galacteon of Vologda (1612)
  • Venerable New Hiero-confessor Leontius (Karpovich), Archimandrite, of Vilnius (1620)
  • Martyr Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher of Constantinople (1682)
  • Hieromartyr Juvenaly of Alaska (1796)
  • New Martyr of Alaska, Peter (Cungagnaq) the Aleut, at the hands of Roman Catholics in San Francisco (1815) <small>(see also: December 13 - Synaxis of the First Martyrs of the American land.)</small>
  • Venerable Gabriel of Seven Lakes Monastery in Kazan, and of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery in Pskov, Schema-Archimandrite (1915) <small>(see also: September 11)</small>

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Basil Voskresensky, Deacon (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs Andrew Bistrov and Paul Berezin, Priests (1937)
  • Martyrs Basil Vinogradov, Sergius Mikhailov and Spiridon Saveliev (1937)
  • Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Filerimos" in Rhodes (10th century)
  • Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of the Myrtle Tree" / "Myrtidiotissa" of Kythera (14th century)
  • Synaxis of All Saints of Alaska - Arrival in America of the first Orthodox Mission (1794): <small>(see also: December 13 - Synaxis of the First Martyrs of the American land.)</small>

:* Saints Herman, Juvenaly, and others.

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File:0924Thecla.jpg|Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla of Iconium.

File:Saint Thecla (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla of Iconium.

File:57. Szent Gellért.jpg|St. Gerard Sagredo (Gerard of Csanád), Apostle of Hungary.

File:Juvenaly of Alaska.JPG|St. Juvenaly of Alaska.

File:Saint Peter the Aleut.jpg|St. Peter the Aleut.

File:Silouanicon.jpg|Venerable Silouan the Athonite.

File:Mirozhskaya.jpg|Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Mirozh" (Mirozhskaya).

File:Panagia Mertidiotisa Icon.jpg|Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Myrtidiotissa", of Kythera.

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Notes

References

Sources

  • September 24/October 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • October 7 / September 24. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • September 24. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.&nbsp;71.
  • The Twenty-Fourth Day of the Month of September. Orthodoxy in China.
  • September 24. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp.&nbsp;295–296.
  • Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp.&nbsp;456–457.

Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 24 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 24 Σεπτεμβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
  • 24/09/2016. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

  • 7 октября (24 сентября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 24 сентября по старому стилю / 7 октября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год.