Happy Feast! - for the Saints of September

Celebrating some of the saints from the South’s Christian inheritance of various lands:

Africa:

10^th – Holy Martyrs of Numidia; many bishops and others confined to hard labor in mines, etc., but withstood the persecution heroically

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/103.html

11^th – St Paphnutius, a bishop who suffered at the hands of the Arians

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/September/11-09.htm

11^th – St Theodora, a great picture of true repentance and humility

http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/16691

Belgium:

17^th – St Lambert of Maastrict, a great light in the West

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/September/17-09.htm

Czechia:

28^th – St Wenceslas, a holy and virtuous prince, martyred by his own family (this is the ‘Good King Wenceslas’ that is sung about at Christmas time)

Shorter version

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/September/28-07.htm

Longer version

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/281.html

England:

6^th – St Bega, a holy anchoress in Cumbria

http://orthochristian.com/82258.html

16^th – St Edith of Wilton, a holy nun greatly loved by all England

http://orthochristian.com/97360.html

19^th – St Theodore, one of the greatest bishops of English history

https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2016/09/saint-theodore-of-tarsus-archbishop-of.html

25^th – St Ceolfrith, a great leader of the famous monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/251.html

30^th – St Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury; the Faith made great progress in England under his guidance

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/303.html

England/France:

6^th – Sts Felix and Augebert, ransomed slaves, martyred on their way to be missionaries in England

http://celticsaints.org/2019/0906e.html

England/Germany:

28^th – St Lioba, an important English abbess and missionary in Germany

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/282.html

France:

1^st – St Giles, a hermit whose influence has been felt from France to Poland

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/011.html

3^rd – St Remaclus, a luminary of the West

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/032.html

5^th – St Bertin, a great abbot and enlightener of France

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/052.html

7^th – St Cloud, a prince who renounced worldly honors and became a spiritual father to his people

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/071.html

9^th – St Omer, a great enlightener of northern France

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/092.html

11^th – St Patiens, a highly-praised archbishop of Lyons

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/113.html

15^th – St Aicard, a nobleman who renounced his title and became an abbot and spiritual father to many

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/154.html

21^st – St Maura, a high-born youth who dedicated her whole life to God and lived it beautifully

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/212.html

23^rd – St Paternus, a monk, abbot, and bishop who labored hard to enlighten northwestern France

https://www.bartleby.com/210/4/153.html

Ireland:

9^th – St Ciaran of Clonmacnoise, one of the 12 Apostles of Ireland

http://orthochristian.com/73745.html

12^th – St Ailbhe/Albeus (a variant of his name is Elvis), one of the early evangelists in Ireland

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/123.html

25^th – St Finbarr of Cork, a luminary of southern Ireland

http://orthochristian.com/97682.html

26^th – St Colman Elo, a spiritual father to many in his land of Heath

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/263.html

Ireland/France:

7^th – St Grimonia, of Irish nobility, she went to France and was martyred; highly venerated and a miracle-worker

http://celticsaints.org/2019/0907c.html

Italy:

29^th – Dedication of the Church of St Michael the Archangel on Mt Gargano

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/291.html

More about the angels
https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/November/08-01.htm

Old Rome:

17^th – Sts Sophia, Faith, Hope, and Love; a mother and her three daughters, all heroic martyrs

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/September/17-01.htm

20^th – Sts Eustathios, Theopistia, Agapius, and Theopistus; a family of holy martyrs; St Eustathios, a military commander, was converted in a miraculous manner, beholding a cross between the antlers of a stag he was hunting

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/September/20-01.htm

28^th – St Eustochium, a holy virgin who followed in the footsteps of her renowned mother St Paula

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/283.html

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/January/26-08.htm

Old Rome/Palestine:

30^th – Blessed Jerome, the prolific Western writer and commentator on the Holy Scriptures

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/June/15-10.htm

Palestine:

29^th – St Kyriakos, a monk who adorned the desert with his holy life, teachings, and miracles

https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/iconoftheday/los/September/29-01.htm

Scotland:

15^th – St Mirin, an Irish abbot of a Scottish monastery near Strathclyde; sought out by many pilgrims

http://celticsaints.org/2019/0915b.html

23^rd – St Adomnan, a renowned abbot of Iona Monastery; he wrote a famous biography of St Columba, the founder of Iona (‘Life of St Columba’).

http://orthochristian.com/86489.html

Wales:

11^th – St Deiniol of Bangor, a great monastic father and enlightener of Wales

http://orthochristian.com/82345.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!