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September 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 26

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 12.

Saints

  • Monk-martyr Paphnutius and 546 companions, in Egypt (c. 303) <small>(see also: April 19 )</small>
  • Martyrs Paul and Tatta and their children Sabinian, Maximos, Rufus, and Eugene, of Damascus.
  • Venerable Euphrosyne of Alexandria, nun, and her father Venerable Paphnutius, monk (5th century)
  • Saint Arsen the Great, Catholicos of Georgia (887)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saints Aurelia and Neomisia, at Anagni, peacefully.
  • Saint Herculanus, a soldier martyred in Rome.
  • Saint Egelred, a monk at Crowland Abbey in England, martyred with his abbot and many others by the heathen Danes (c. 869)
  • Venerable Euphrosyne of Suzdal, nun (1250)
  • Repose of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh, Abbot of Radonezh and Wonderworker of All Russia (1392)
  • Saint Pimen (Cherny), archbishop of Novgorod (1571)
  • Saint Dosithea the Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (1776)

New martyrs and confessors

  • Saint Nicholas Rozov the Confessor, Priest (1941)

Other commemorations

  • Commemoration of the earthquake in Constantinople in 447, when a boy was lifted up to heaven and heard the "Trisagion".
  • First translation of the relics (1595) of St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
  • Repose of philosopher Alexei Stepanovich Khomiakov, cofounder of the Slavophile movement (1860)