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Sep. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 24All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 6 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Martyrs Andrew, John, Peter, and Antoninus of Syracuse, martyred in Africa...

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Sep. 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 26All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 8 by Old Calendarists-Saints:*Repose of Saint Sergius, Abbot and Wonderworker of Radonezh *Venerable Euphrosyne of Alexandria...



All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 7 by Old Calendarists
Old calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...


Saints

  • Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles
    Equal-to-apostles
    An equal-to-the-apostles is a special title given to some canonized saints in Eastern Orthodoxy. It is also used by Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in communion with Rome...

     Thekla
    Thecla
    Thecla was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The only known record of her comes from the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla, probably composed in the 2nd century.-Biography:...

     (1st century)
  • Venerable Nicander, hermit
    Hermit
    A hermit is a person who lives, to some degree, in seclusion from society.In Christianity, the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Desert Theology of the Old Testament .In the...

     of Pskov
    Pskov
    Pskov is an ancient city and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located in the northwest of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population: -Early history:...

     (1581)
  • New-martyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

     of Alaska
    Alaska
    Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

    , Priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

    -monk
    Monk
    A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

     Juvenaly
  • New-martyr of Alaska, Peter the Aleut
    Peter the Aleut
    Cungagnaq is venerated as a martyr and saint by some jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was allegedly a native of Kodiak Island , and is said to have received the Christian name of Peter when he was baptized into the Orthodox faith by the monks of St...

    , at the hands of Roman Catholics in San Francisco (1815)
  • Saint Silouan
    Silouan the Athonite
    Saint Silouan the Athonite, also sometimes referred to as Saint Silvanus the Athonite or Staretz Silouan , was an Eastern Orthodox monk of Russian origin. He was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov, of Russian Orthodox parents who came from the village of Sovsk in Russia's Tambov region...

    , elder of Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

     (1938) (celebrated Sep 11 on Old Calendar due to the year of his repose)
  • Venerable Dorothy of Kashin
  • Saint
    Saint
    A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

     Coprius of Palestine (530
    530
    Year 530 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lampadius and Probus...

    )
  • Righteous Euphrosyne, daughter of Saint Paphnutius
    Paphnutius
    The Greek name Paphnutius takes its origin in Egyptian pa-ph-nuti The Greek name Paphnutius (Παφνούτιος) takes its origin in Egyptian pa-ph-nuti The Greek name Paphnutius (Παφνούτιος) takes its origin in Egyptian pa-ph-nuti ("the [man] of God" or "that who belongs to God"; see: the Coptic name...

     of Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

  • Saint Abramius, abbot
    Abbot
    The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...

     of Mirozh in Pskov (1158)
  • Martyr Galacteon, monk of Vologda
    Vologda
    Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...

     (1612)
  • Saints Stephen (monastic name Simon), David, and Vladislav of Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

     (1230-1239)
  • Saint Ahmet the Neo-Martyr, who'd been a Turkish convert to Orthodoxy in Ottoman Istanbul.

Other Commemorations

  • Repose of Schema-archimandrite
    Archimandrite
    The title Archimandrite , primarily used in the Eastern Orthodox and the Eastern Catholic churches, originally referred to a superior abbot whom a bishop appointed to supervise...

     Gabriel of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery (1915)
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