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September 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 27.

Feasts

  • Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos.

Saints

  • Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna (parents of the Theotokos).
  • Venerable Theophanes, Confessor and Faster, of Mount Diabenos (299)
  • Martyr Chariton, by the sword.
  • Martyr Severian of Sebaste (320)
  • Saint Rufus, Bishop of Thessaloniki from 407 (434)
  • Saint Agathocles of Koroni, Bishop of Koroni and a father of the Third Ecumenical Council (5th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Hyacinth, Alexander and Tiburtius, martyrs in the Sabine country in Italy, about thirty miles from Rome.

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Blessed Nicetas the Hidden, of Constantinople (12th century)
  • Venerable Joseph, founder of Volokolamsk (Volotsk) Monastery, Wonderworker (1515)
  • Venerable Joachim, founder of Opochka Monastery, Pskov (c. 1550) Priest and Alexander Ipatov, Deacon (1918)
  • New Hieromartyrs Sergius Uklonsky, Joseph Arkharov, Alexis Uspensky, Priests (1937)
  • New Martyr Basil Shikalov (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Andronicus (Surikov), Hieromonk, of Moscow (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexander Vinogradov, Priest (1942)
  • Uncovering and Translation of the Relics (1896) of St. Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov (1696)
  • Synaxis of the Elders of the Glinsk Monastery:

:* Venerable Vasily (Kishkin)

:* Venerable Philaret (Danilovsky)

:* Venerable Theodoty (Levchenko)

:* Venerable Makary (Sharov)

:* Venerable Martiry (Kirichenko)

:* Venerable Evfimy (Lyubimchenko)

:* Venerable Dosithy (Kolchenkov)

:* Venerable Iliadore (Golovantsky)

:* Venerable Innokenty (Stepanov)

:* Venerable Luke (Shvets)

:* Venerable Archipy (Shestakov)

:* Venerable Ioanniky (Gomolko)

:* Venerable Seraphim (Amelin)

:* Venerable Adronik (Lukash)

:* Venerable Sraphim (Romantsov)

:* Venerable Zinovy (Mazhugi), Metropolitan of Tetritsqaro (Seraphim in the schema).

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File:Santi gioacchino e anna.jpg|Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna.

File:Meeting at the Golden Gate (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna.

File:Angelos Akotanos - Saint Anne with the Virgin - 15th century.jpg|St. Anna.

File:Severian of Sebaste (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|St. Severian of Sebaste, one of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.

File:Birr St. Brendan's Church Saint Kieran Window Detail 2010 09 10.jpg|St. Kieran of Clonmacnoise.

File:Josephvolotsk.jpg|Venerable Joseph, founder of Volokolamsk Monastery.

File:Mănăstirea Sihăstria Voronei23.jpg|Relics of St. Onuphrius of Vorona, Moldavia.

File:Venerable Onuphrius of Vorona, Moldavia (†1789).jpg|Venerable Onuphrius of Vorona, Moldavia.

File:Zaharia lobov 2010 001.jpg|New Hieromartyr Zachariah (Lobov), Archbishop of Voronezh.

File:Feodosiy chernigovskiy.jpg|St. Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov.

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Notes

References

Sources

  • September 9/September 22. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • September 22 / September 9. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • September 9. 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;67.
  • The Ninth Day of the Month of September. Orthodoxy in China.
  • September 9. 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;277–278.
  • 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;441–443.

; Greek Sources

  • Great Synaxaristes: 9 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  • Συναξαριστής. 9 Σεπτεμβρίου . ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
  • 09/09/. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

; Russian Sources

  • 22 сентября (9 сентября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  • 9 сентября по старому стилю / 22 сентября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на год.