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September 29 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 1

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 13 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 30th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 17.

Saints

  • Hieromartyr Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Enlightener of Greater Armenia (c. 335)
  • Martyrs Rhipsima and Gaiana with 35 Virgin-Martyrs, in Armenia (early 4th century)
  • Holy seventy (70) martyrs, with St. Rhipsima (4th century)
  • Holy 1000 martyrs, by the sword.
  • Martyr Stratonicus, by the sword.
  • Martyr Mardonius, by burning out his eyes.

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyr Sophia, mother of the virgin-martyrs Faith, Hope and Charity, at Rome (c. 173) <small>(see also: September 17 - East)</small>
  • Martyrs Victor and Ursus, two soldiers connected with the Theban Legion and venerated in Soleure in Switzerland (286)|group=note
  • Saint Antoninus, a soldier of the Theban Legion, martyred on the banks of the Trebbia near Piacenza in Italy (3rd century) <small>(see also: September 13 - Greek)</small>

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Prokopius Popov, Priest (1918)
  • New Hiero-confessor Seraphim (Zagorovsky), Hieromonk, of Kharkov (1943)

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File:Gregory Illuminator.JPG|Hieromartyr Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Enlightener of Greater Armenia.

File:Menologion of Basil 038.jpg|Hieromartyr Gregory the Illuminator, Bishop and Enlightener of Greater Armenia.

File:Tombstone of Saint Hripsime.jpg|Tombstone of St. Rhipsima.

File:Hripsime and Gaiane (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Martyrs Rhipsima and Gaiana.

File:Sophia the Martyr.jpg|St. Sophia the Martyr.

File:Saint Jerome Writing-Caravaggio (1605-6).jpg|Saint Jerome Writing.

File:Абраз "Св. Міхаіл Цвярскі".JPG|Saint Michael, Great Prince of Tver.

File:Grigory Pelshemsky and Arseny Komelsky.jpg|Venerable Gregory, founder of Pelshma Monastery in Vologda.

File:Mikhail, metropolitan of Kiev by M. Dikarev (Hermitage).jpg|Michael, First Metropolitan of Kiev.

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Notes

References

Sources

  • September 30/October 13. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • October 13 / September 30. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • September 30. 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;73.
  • The Thirtieth Day of the Month of September. Orthodoxy in China.
  • September 30. 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;301–302.
  • 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;466–467.

; Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 30 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 30 Σεπτεμβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
  • 30/09/2016. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

; Russian Sources

  • 13 октября (30 сентября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 30 сентября по старому стилю / 13 октября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2016 год.