Happy Feast! - for the Saints of September

 

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

Universal Church Feasts:

1^st – The Church New Year

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/01/501-church-new-year

4^th – Holy Prophet Moses the God-Seer.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/04/102490-holy-prophet-and-god-seer-moses

6^th - Commemoration of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae (Chonae) (4th c.). In Colossae in Phrygia there were a church and a holy spring dedicated to the Archangel Michael. Malicious pagans diverted the course of two rivers so that they would inundate the church. But the Archangel appeared, bringing with him an earthquake that shook the whole area and opened a fissure into which the waters plunged, sparing the church. The place was thereafter called "Chonae" Greek for "funnels" instead of Colossae.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

A longer account is here:  https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/06/102517-commemoration-of-the-miracle-of-the-archangel-michael-at-colossa

8^th – The Nativity of the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/08/102541-the-nativity-of-our-most-holy-lady-the-mother-of-god-and-ever-vi

9^th – Holy Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna, Father and Mother of the Mother of God.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/09/102546-holy-and-righteous-ancestors-of-god-joachim-and-anna

9th – Holy Fathers of the Third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus (+431). The Third Ecumenical Council was convened in the year 431 in the city of Ephesus (Asia Minor) during the reign of the emperor Theodosius the Younger (408-450). The Council was convened to investigate without further delay, the false teachings of Patriarch Nestorius of Constantinople (428-431). Contrary to the dogmas of the Ecumenical Church, Nestorius dared to assert that the Son of God Jesus Christ is not one Person (Hypostasis), as Holy Church teaches, but is rather two distinct persons, one Divine, and the other human. Regarding the Most Holy Theotokos, he impiously asserted that She should not be called the Mother of God, but rather only the mother of the man Christ. The heresy of Nestorius is opposed to one of the basic dogmas of the Christian Faith: our Lord Jesus Christ’s divine and human natures. . . . The rest is at https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/09/102555-commemoration-of-the-holy-fathers-of-the-third-ecumenical-counci

13^th - Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre) at Jerusalem (+335).

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/13/102593-commemoration-of-the-founding-of-the-church-of-the-resurrection

14^th – The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross (326).

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/14/102610-the-universal-exaltation-of-the-precious-and-life-giving-cross

A hymn for the Feast:

As You were voluntarily raised upon the cross for our sake, / grant mercy to those who are called by Your Name, O Christ God; / make all Orthodox Christians glad by Your power, / granting them victories over their adversaries, / by bestowing on them the Invincible trophy, Your weapon of Peace.

https://www.oca.org/saints/troparia/2020/09/14/102610-the-universal-exaltation-of-the-precious-and-life-giving-cross

15^th – The Uncovering of the Relics of St Stephen the First Martyr and Archdeacon, an event attended by many miracles.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/15/102621-uncovering-of-the-relics-of-the-holy-protomartyr-and-archdeacon

23^rd – The Conception of the Glorious Forerunner and Baptist John.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/23/102703-conception-of-the-honorable-glorious-prophet-forerunner-and-bapt

24^th – St Thekla, First Woman Martyr and Equal to the Apostles (+1^st hundredyear). The Holy Protomartyr and Equal of the Apostles Thekla was born in the city of Iconium. She was the daughter of rich and illustrious parents, and she was distinguished by extraordinary beauty. At eighteen years of age they betrothed her to an eminent youth. But after she heard the preaching of the holy Apostle Paul about the Savior, Saint Thekla with all her heart came to love the Lord Jesus Christ, and she steadfastly resolved not to enter into marriage, but rather to devote all her life to preaching the Gospel. Saint Thekla’s mother was opposed to her daughter’s plans and insisted that she marry her betrothed. Saint Thekla’s fiancé also complained to the prefect of the city about the Apostle Paul, accusing him of turning his bride against him. The prefect locked up Saint Paul in prison. During the night Saint Thekla secretly ran away from her house, and she bribed the prison guards, giving them all her gold ornaments, and so made her way into the prison to the prisoner. For three days she sat at the feet of the Apostle Paul, listening to his fatherly precepts. Thekla’s disappearance was discovered, and servants were sent out everywhere looking for her. . . . The rest of her illustrious life may be read here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/24/102715-protomartyr-and-equal-of-the-apostles-thekla

26^th – The Falling Asleep of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/26/102731-repose-of-the-holy-apostle-and-evangelist-john-the-theologian

Africa:

6^th – St David of Egypt. St David led the life of an evil robber and murderer early in life but later repented and became a holy wonderworker as a monk at a monastery.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/06/102528-saint-david-of-hermopolis-egypt

6^th – Sts Donatian, Praesidius, Mansuetus, Germanus, Fusculus and Laetus. 5th century. Orthodox driven out of Africa into exile by Hunneric the Arian King of the Vandals. At that time the number of exiles reached nearly five thousand in a single year.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

10^th – Sts Nemesian, Felix, Lucius, another Felix, Litteus, Polyanus, Victor, Jader, Dativus and Companions. + 257. Nine bishops of Numidia in North Africa who with numerous other clergy and laypeople were condemned to slavery in the marble quarries of Sigum where they ended their lives. A letter of St Cyprian addressed to them still exists.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Some of the contents of this noteworthy letter by St Cyprian to these heroic martyrs are here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/103.html

11^th – Holy Mother Theodora of Alexandria (+490). A wonderful story of how even the deepest falls into sin can be overcome by sincere repentance. An excellent life to read and dwell upon:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/11/102570-venerable-theodora-of-alexandria

11^th – St Paphnutius the Confessor (+4^th hundredyear). "A bishop of the Egyptian Thebaid, he suffered greatly for the Orthodox faith: heretics put out one of his eyes and broke his left leg. He took part in the First Ecumenical Council, refuting the Arian heresy with great power. The Emperor Constantine valued him greatly and often kissed him on the missing eye, lost for the truth of Orthodoxy. At the council, he stood in opposition to the western representatives, who proposed that secular priests be completely forbidden to marry. He was chaste throughout the whole of his life." (Prologue)

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

16^th – St Dorotheos the Solitary of Egypt (+4^th hundredyear). He was one of the great company of Egyptian desert fathers of the fourth century. He lived alone in a cell in the Thebaid for sixty years, devoting himself to prayer, asceticism and renowned love of labor. He spent his days building cells for new monks, his nights making plaited mats, all the while immersed in prayer and psalmody.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

More details: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/16/102632-venerable-dorotheus-the-hermit-of-egypt

23rd – St Iraida (Rhais) of Alexandria (+308). The Holy Martyr Iraida lived at Alexandria. Once, she went to a well to draw water and saw a ship at the shore. On board were a large number of men, women, clergy and monks, all fettered in chains for their confession of the Christian Faith. Casting aside her water pitcher, the saint voluntarily joined the prisoners for Christ, and fetters were placed on her, too. When the ship arrived in the Egyptian city of Antipolis, Saint Iraida was the first to undergo fierce torments and was beheaded with the sword. After her, the other martyrs sealed their confession of faith in Christ with their blood.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/23/102706-virgin-martyr-irais-rhais-of-alexandria

25^th – St Paphnutius and the 546 companions martyred with him in Egypt.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/25/102729-martyr-paphnutius-and-546-companions-in-egypt

Africa/Switzerland:

22^nd – Martyrs of the Theban Legion + c 287. The army of Maximinian Herculeus included a legion (6,600 men) of Christians recruited in Upper Egypt. When the Emperor marched his army across the Alps to suppress a revolt in Gaul, he camped near Agaunum in Switzerland and prepared for battle with public sacrifices. The Christian legion refused to take part and were as a result consequence decimated twice. When they still persevered in their refusal they were massacred. Among those who suffered were Maurice, Exuperius, Candidus, Vitalis, two Victors, Alexander (in Bergamo) and Gereon (in Cologne). A basilica was built in Agaunum, now St-Maurice-en-Valais to enshrine the relics of the martyrs.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/221.html

Alaska:

24^th – All Saints of Alaska. On the anniversary of the arrival of the Russian missionaries in Alaska (1794), we remember the New Martyrs Saint Peter the Aleut, Protomartyr of America, and Saint Juvenal.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/24/102712-synaxis-of-all-saints-of-alaska

Hymns to the Saints:

Today Alaska rejoices and America celebrates, / for the new world has been sanctified by martyrdom / Kodiak echoes with songs of thanksgiving, / Iliamna and Kenai observe the festival of faith. / The Apostle and martyr Juvenaly is glorified, / and Peter the Aleut is exalted by his voluntary sacrifice, / in their devotion and love for the Lord / they willingly endured persecution and death for the Truth, / now in the Kingdom of Heaven they intercede for our souls!

Today Valaam joins Alaska / in celebrating this joyous feast, / as her spiritual son Juvenaly / embraces the new martyr Peter with love. / Together they suffered for the Lord in America / and united the old world with the new by their voluntary sacrifice. / Now forever they stand before the King of glory and intercede for our souls.

https://www.oca.org/saints/troparia/2020/09/24/102712-synaxis-of-all-saints-of-alaska

The Lives of Sts Peter and St Juvenaly:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/24/102713-martyr-peter-the-aleut

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/24/102714-martyr-juvenal-of-alaska

Armenia:

30^th – St Gregory, Equal of the Apostles and Enlightener of Armenia. The sufferings he endured for the Armenian people are quite extraordinary. Read about that and more here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/30/102818-hieromartyr-gregory-bishop-of-greater-armenia-equal-of-the-apost

Asia Minor:

2^nd – St Mamas.  A courageous 15-year-old martyr for the Orthodox Faith. He is honored together with his mother and father, Rufina and Theodotus, who also died for the Faith.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/02/102459-martyr-mamas-of-caesarea-in-cappadocia

3^rd – St Basilissa the Martyr (+309). She lived near Nicomedia during the great persecution by the Emperor Diocletian. Though she was only nine years old, she was arrested and brought before Alexander, the Governor of Bithynia. When she fearlessly proclaimed her faith in Christ, the Governor had her stripped and beaten, but she only gave thanks to God. Enraged at the steadfastness of a mere child, the Governor ordered her chained and plunged head-first into boiling pitch, then cast into a blazing furnace, then thrown to the lions. Through all these torments she was miraculously preserved. Astonished at the wonders that he beheld, Alexander fell at Basilissa's feet and confessed that he too believed that Christ is the Savior. He was baptized by the Bishop of Nicomedia and died not long afterward. Basilissa went into the wilderness outside the city to give thanks to God for her endurance under torture and to ask Him to receive her soul in peace. While praying in this way, she entered into her rest.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/03/102482-martyr-basilissa-of-nicomedia

7th – St Eupsychius. The Holy Martyr Eupsychius was born in Caesaria, Cappadocia. In one of the Synaxaria he is called the son of a senator Dionysius. During a time of a persecution against Christians under Hadrian, he was arrested and tortured. After the torture they threw him into prison, where he was healed of his wounds by an angel. When they set the martyr free, he distributed all his property to the poor. He gave away a certain portion even to his enemies, who had reported him and given him over to torture. Under a new governor, Saint Eupsychius was again arrested. They hung him up and cut his body with iron hooks, and then they cut off his head with a sword. The martyr died under the emperor Hadrian (117-138).

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/07/102538-martyr-eupsychius-of-caesarea-in-cappadocia

7th – St Sozon. Saint Sozon lived in the late III century. He was from Lykaonia in Cilicia, and originally his name was Tarasios. When he became a Christian, he was baptized and received the name Sozon. A shepherd by profession, he tried to imitate the meekness of the sheep, at which he marveled. “I am ashamed,” he said, “that I am inferior to sheep.” He studied the Holy Scriptures attentively, and he also guided Christ‘s rational sheep to good pastures. One day, while watering his flock at a spring, Sozon fell asleep under an oak tree, where he had a vision which foretold his impending martyrdom for Christ. He was also informed that the spring would become a source of blessing and of healing for many, since it would be sanctified by God‘s grace. When he awakened, he entrusted his flock to another shepherd and journeyed to Pompeiopolis in Cilicia. Seeing what impiety there was in that city, his heart was profoundly grieved. Entering one of the temples of the idolaters, he beheld a golden statue representing a pagan “god.” Then, with great courage, he broke off the statue‘s right hand with his shepherd‘s crook and smashed it into tiny pieces, which he distributed to the poor. This caused a great uproar in the city. . . . The rest is at https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/07/102532-martyr-sozon-of-cilicia .

15th – St Porphyrius the Actor. The Holy Martyr Porphyrius suffered during the reign of Julian the Apostate (361-363). Porphyrius was an actor and on the emperor’s birthday he was performing a role at the theater, where he was supposed to mock the mystery of holy Baptism. During the play Porphyrius was immersed in water and said: “The servant of God, Porphyrius, is baptized in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Through divine grace, he emerged from the water and confessed himself a Christian. Julian ordered him to be tortured, and after the torments, to be beheaded. This took place in the city of Ephesus in the year 361.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/15/102620-martyr-porphyrius-the-actor

16^th – Great Martyr Euphemia the All-Praised (+304). She was born in Chalcedon to noble Christian parents. When Priscus, the locul Proconsul, celebrated a public sacrifice to Ares, forty-nine Christians including Euphemia hid themselves to avoid idolatry. Their absence was noticed, and they were found and brought before Priscus. After torturing all of them for eleven days, on the twelfth day he singled out Euphemia because of her beauty and began to flatter her, hoping in this way to draw her away from the Faith. When his efforts proved useless, he ordered her to be more savagely tortured than any of her fellow believers. She was miraculously preserved intact through many tortures, finally giving her soul into God's hands when she was thrown to wild beasts. Her devout parents retrieved and buried her body. Her relics are preserved in the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The miracle wrought by her holy relics at the Council of Chalcedon is commemorated on July 11.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

Read further at https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/16/102626-great-martyr-euphmia-the-all-praised

19^th – Martyr Zosimas the Hermit of Cilicia (+4^th hundredyear). Dometian, a prince and a fierce persecutor of Christians, was hunting in the mountains when he came upon an old man surrounded by wild beasts, who were as gentle and tame as lambs in his presence. When asked who he was, the old man answered that he was Zosimas, a Christian who had left the persecutors in the city to live among the beasts instead. Dometian, hearing that Zosimas was a Christian, ordered him seized and bound, and subjected him to many tortures. When the holy man was wounded and beaten all over, the prince tied a rock around his neck and hanged him from a tree, mocking him with the words 'Command a wild beast to come, then we will all believe!' Zosimas prayed, and at once a large lion appeared, came up to Zosimas, and took the weight of the rock on its head to ease the martyr's sufferings. The terrified prince freed Zosimas, who died of his wounds not long afterward.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

See also https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/19/102670-martyr-zosimas-the-hermit-of-cilicia

Asia Minor/France:

24^th – Sts Andochius, Thyrsus and Felix. + 2nd cent. Andochius, a priest, and Thyrsus, a deacon in Smyrna, were sent to what is now France by St Polycarp. They settled in Autun where they converted their host, a rich merchant, by name Felix. All three were martyred and were venerated throughout Gaul.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Asia Minor/Palestine:

28th – St Chariton the Confessor (+350). Saint Chariton the Confessor was born at Iconium in the province of Lycaonia, and suffered there during a persecution against Christians in the reign of Emperor Aurelian (270-275). The example of the holy Protomartyr Thekla (September 24), who was also a native of his city, encouraged him to confess Christ, since he had a great devotion to her. Saint Chariton bravely denounced the pagan gods and staunchly confessed faith in the one True God, Christ the Savior. The holy Confessor underwent fierce tortures but, by God's Providence, he survived. The persecution ended after Aurelian's death in 275. Saint Chariton was among the many Christians who were released from prison, and he resolved to dedicate his entire life to the service of the Lord. Although he escaped death, he grieved because he had not received the crown of martyrdom. . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/28/102742-venerable-chariton-the-confessor-abbot-of-palestine

Asia Minor/Syria:

1^st – St Simeon Stylites the Elder (+459). A special desert father of Syria who practiced his ascetic feats on a tall pillar.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/01/102448-saint-simeon-stylites-the-elder

Belgium:

20^th – St Vincent (Madelgarus). +677. Madelgarus was the husband of St Waldetrudis. They had four children, all saints: Landericus, Dentin, Madalberta and Aldegtrudis. About the year 653 she became a nun and Madelgarus became a monk with the name of Vincent in Haumont in Belgium which he had founded. Later he founded another monastery in Soignies, also in Belgium.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Belgium/Holland:

17^th – St Lambert of Maestricht. + 709. Born in Maastricht in Holland, he became bishop there in 668, but in 674 he was driven out by the tyrant Ebroin. He then lived as a monk for seven years at the monastery of Stavelot in Belgium. He returned later and did much to help St Willibrord. He was murdered in the then village of Liège and is venerated as a martyr.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Much more about this great Saint of the West is here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/171.html

Carthage/Old Rome:

27th – St Calistratus and the 49 soldiers martyred with him (+288 or 304). Saint Callistratus was a native of Carthage. An ancestor of Saint Callistratus, Neochorus, had served under the emperor Tiberius in Palestine, under the command of Pontius Pilate, the procurator of Judea, and was a witness to the suffering on the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, His voluntary death and glorious Resurrection. The saint’s father was a Christian, and he raised his son in faith and piety. Also like his father, Saint Callistratus became a soldier and excelled among his pagan military comrades by his good conduct and gentle disposition. At night when everyone slept, he usually stayed up at prayer. Once, a soldier sleeping nearby heard Saint Callistratus invoking the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he reported this to the military commander, who in turn summoned Callistratus, interrogated him and wanted to make him offer sacrifice to idols. . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/27/102736-martyr-callistratus-and-49-companions

Constantinople/New Rome:

10^th – Right Believing Empress Pulcheria (+453). An exceedingly good ruler of the Orthodox Roman Empire for many years.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/10/102566-right-believing-pulcheria-byzantine-empress

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/102.html

14^th – St Placilla the Empress (+385 or 386). She was the wife of the Emperor Theodosius the Great, and the mother of two Emperors, Arcadius and Honorius. Despite her lofty station, she devoted herself to visiting the poor and to caring personally for the sick. She often worked in the kitchens of various hospices in Constantinople, taking on tasks unexpected of anyone of patrician rank, let alone the Empress herself. To fulfil these missions, she often traveled unescorted through the poorest parts of the City. When others tried to caution or dissuade her, she answered that this was her way of giving thanks for all that God had given her. "Throughout her life, Saint Placilla served God in chastity, meekness, charity and prayer, and departed in peace to eternal life in 386 (or 385), having brought to those who encountered her a pledge of the Resurrection and of endless joy." (Synaxarion).

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

Corinth/Palestine:

29^th – St Cyriacus the Hermit (+555 or 557). A remarkable ascetic, wonderworker, and defender of the Orthodox Faith against heresies. Read his wonderful life here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/29/102813-venerable-cyriacus-the-hermit-of-palestine

Czechia:

16^th – St Ludmilla. + 921. Princess of Czechia, entrusted with the education of the young prince St Wenceslas, she was the victim of jealousy and was strangled by hired assassins.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

More is at https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/16/102633-martyr-ludmilla-the-grandmother-of-saint-wenceslaus-prince-of-th .

28^th – St Wenceslas (Viacheslav). 907-929. Prince of Czechia, he was brought up in the Orthodox Faith by his grandmother, the future martyr Ludmilla. During a pagan reaction in 922, which he tried to stop through patience and mildness, he too was martyred as a result of a political conspiracy. He is the patron-saint of Czechia.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Longer accounts of the holy prince:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/28/102754-martyr-wenceslaus-prince-of-the-czechs

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

England:

8^th – St Ethelburgh (Ethelburga). + c 647. Daughter of King Ethelbert of Kent in England, she married King Edwin of Northumbria. She went there accompanied by St Paulinus. After Edwin's death she returned to Kent and founded the convent of Lyminge, where she became a nun and abbess.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

8^th – Sts Ina (Ine) and Ethelburgh. + 727. Ina was King of Wessex in England from 688 till 726, and is remembered as the restorer of Glastonbury. In about 726 he abdicated and went to Rome with his wife Ethelburgh, where he ended his days as a monk.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

13^th – St Wilfrida. + c 988. Mother of St Edith of Wilton in England. After Edith's birth, Wilfrida went to Wilton where she became a nun. As a nun, and later as abbess, she led a repentant and edifying life.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

More about St Wilfrida is told here: http://orthochristian.com/97360.html

16^th – St Edith. + 984. Daughter of King Edgar and St Wilfrida. She became a nun at Wilton in England at the age of fifteen. She reposed at the age of twenty-two, famous for her generosity to the poor and her familiarity with wild animals.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

A longer account is here: http://orthochristian.com/97360.html

19^th – St Theodore of Canterbury. c 602-690. A Greek who was educated in Tarsus in Cilicia, he spent some time at Athens and became a monk in Rome. He was aged sixty-six when Pope Vitalian appointed him to Canterbury at the suggestion of the African St Adrian in 666. They travelled to England together, Adrian becoming Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul in Canterbury. Theodore is rightly called the second founder of Canterbury. He visited all parts of the country, consolidated or re-established dioceses, promoted learning and held the first national Council in Hertford in 672. St Theodore is one of the greatest figures in English history.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/19/102671-saint-theodore-of-tarsus-archbishop-of-canterbury

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/192.html

A service for St Theodore: http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/servtheo.htm

25^th – St Ceolfrid (Geoffrey), Abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow. 642-716. A Northumbrian who became a monk at Gilling in Yorkshire in England. From here he went to Ripon and later to Wearmouth. Eventually he became Abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow for twenty-six years. He is remembered for inspiring St Bede and also producing the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving copy of the Vulgate in one complete volume. He reposed at Langres in France on his way to Rome.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0925a.html

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

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/bede-jarrow.asp

28^th – St Tetta. + c 772. Abbess of Wimborne in Dorset in England. She helped St Boniface by sending him nuns from her 500-strong convent, among whom were Sts Lioba and Thecla.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

30^th – St Honorius of Canterbury. + 653. Born in Rome, he succeeded St Justus as fifth Archbishop of Canterbury in England (627). He was consecrated bishop at Lincoln by St Paulinus and himself consecrated St Felix for East Anglia and St Ithamar, the first English bishop, for Rochester.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

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

England/France:

6^th – St Felix and Augebert. 7th cent. Two slaves from England sold in France and ransomed by St Gregory the Great, who asked that they be taken to a monastery to be prepared as missionaries in England. Felix was ordained priest and Augebert deacon, but they were killed by pagans in Champagne before they could undertake their mission.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

England/Germany:

28^th – St Lioba. + c 781. A relative of St Boniface, St Lioba became a nun at Wimborne. In 748, at the request of St Boniface, she left England for Germany together with a group of nuns and became Abbess of Bischoffsheim. She was greatly loved by her nuns. St Lioba's convents were one of the most important factors in the conversion of Germany.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

More about St Lioba: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/282.html

France:

1^st – St Giles. 8th cent. Probably born in Provence in the south of France, he became abbot of a monastery on the Rhône, where the town of Saint-Gilles now stands. He is venerated as the patron-saint of cripples and beggars.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

More is at https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/011.html .

1^st – St Lupus of Sens. + 623. A monk at Lérins who became Bishop of Sens in France in 609. He was slandered and exiled but was recalled by his people and fully vindicated.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

A fuller account is here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/013.html .

2^nd – St Agricola (Agricolus). c 630-700. Son of St Magnus, Bishop of Avignon. At the age of sixteen he became a monk at Lérins where he stayed for sixteen years. His father called him to Avignon and in 660 he became bishop there and is considered to be the patron-saint of the town.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

2^nd – St Justus of Lyons. + 390. A deacon in Vienne who became Bishop of Lyons in France in 350. In 381 he attended the Council of Aquileia and then went to Egypt and lived as a hermit.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/022.html

7th – St Cloud. Saint Cloud was born in 520. When his father was killed in battle in 524 he and his brothers were brought up by their grandmother Saint Clotilde (June 3). His brothers were murdered by their uncles Childebert and Clotaire to prevent them from succeeding to the Frankish throne. Saint Cloud escaped and lived as a hermit, renouncing any claim to the throne. Later, Saint Cloud was ordained to the holy priesthood, and lived a life of virtue and good works. He died around 560.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/07/102540-venerable-cloud-clodoald-abbot-founder-of-nogent-sur-seine-near

A longer account is here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/071.html

And a short video recounting his life is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksufdDd1prY

10^th – St Salvius. + 584. A lawyer who became a monk and abbot, then a hermit and finally Bishop of Albi in France (574-584). He died while tending the sick during an epidemic.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/105.html

11^th – St Patiens. + c 491. Archbishop of Lyons in France, he was highly praised by his contemporary St Sidonius Apollinaris. He devoted all his income to the poor.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

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

15^th – St Aicard. + c 687. Born in Poitiers in France, the son of an officer at the court of Clotaire II, early in life he became a monk at Ansion in Poitou. Here he spent thirty-nine years, later becoming Abbot of St Benedict's at Quinçay near Poitiers. Finally he succeeded St Philibert as Abbot of Jumièges, where there were nearly one thousand monks.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

More about St Aicard is found here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/154.html

18^th – St Ferreolus. + 3rd cent. An army officer, he was martyred in Vienne in France under Diocletian.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/183.html

18^th – St Richardis. + c 895. Married at the age of twenty-two to the Frankish Emperor Charles the Fat, after nineteen years of married life she was accused of unfaithfulness. Her innocence was established, but she became a nun at the convent of Andlau which she had founded.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

19^th – St Seine. + c 580. A monk at Réomay and founder of a monastery in Segreste near Langres in France, which was later called Saint-Seine after him.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/196.html

21^st – St Maura. +850. A holy virgin in Troyes in France, she reposed at the age of twenty-three after a life of prayer and good works.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

More details about this wonderful saint are here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/212.html

22^nd – St Lo. + c 568. Bishop of Coutances in France for forty years (528-568). His estate became the village of Saint-Lô.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/213.html

22^nd – St Salaberga. + c 665. As a child she was healed of blindness by St Eustace of Lisieux in France. She married very young but her husband died after only two months. Her second husband was St Blandinus and she had five children, two of whom are venerated as saints. In later years husband and wife took up the monastic life, Salaberga in Poulangey. Later she founded the convent of St John the Baptist in Laon where she reposed

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

24^th – St Geremarus (Germer). + c 658. Born in Beauvais in the north of France, with the consent of his saintly wife he became a monk at the monastery of Pentale, where he later became abbot. He later lived as a hermit in a cave nearby. In 655 he founded the monastery of Flay, between Beauvais and Rouen, which became known as Saint-Germer.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/242.html

25th – St Aunaire (Anacharius), +604. HE was descended from a distinguished family of the Orleanois, and lived in his youth at the court of Gontran, king of Burgundy. But, having renounced the world, he submitted himself to the direction of Syagrius, bishop of Autun, then celebrated for learning and virtue. He was placed in the see of Auxerre about the year 570. He assisted at the fourth council of Paris in 573, as well as at two other councils which were held some years after at Macon. Zealous to restore discipline in his diocess, he assembled a synod, where forty-five statutes were framed, the first of which condemned superstitious observances on New Year’s day. He was indefatigable in his vigilance and care over the purity of manners, and constantly instructed his people in all the duties that regard the Christian dispensation. . . . The rest is at

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/254.html

28^th – St Exuperius (Soupire). +411. Bishop of Toulouse in France, he was noted for his generosity in sending large contributions to the poor in Palestine and Egypt.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/284.html

28^th – St Faustus. c 408-490. Born in Brittany, Faustus became a monk at Lérins in France and later abbot (433). In about 459 he became Bishop of Riez. He fought both Arianism and Pelagianism and was very influential, maintaining the Orthodox teaching of St Cassian.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

France/Germany:

4^th – St Ida of Herzfeld. + c 813. Happily married, she was widowed when she was still very young. She founded the convent of Herzfeld in Westphalia in Germany and devoted herself to good works.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/043.html

8^th – St Corbinian. 670-730. He lived for fourteen years as a hermit and then went to Rome. He was consecrated bishop and went to preach Christ in Germany. He lived in Freising in Bavaria.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/085.html

22^nd – St Emmeran. + c 690. Born in Poitiers in France, he moved to Bavaria in Germany where he became abbot of a monastery in Regensburg and then bishop there. He was later attacked by assassins and died from his wounds. His relics were enshrined in the monastery dedicated to him in Regensburg where he was venerated as a martyr.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

His tireless work as a preacher of the Gospel bore much fruit:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/222.html

France/Luxembourg/Belgium/Holland:

3^rd – St Remaclus, An Enlightener of the West. + c 663. A noble born in Aquitaine in France, he became a monk and the first Abbot of Solignac near Limoges and then of Cougnon in Luxembourg. About the year 648 he founded the monasteries of Stavelot and Malmédy in Belgium and in 652 he became Bishop of Maastricht in Holland.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

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

France/Switzerland:

13^th – St Amatus. + 690. Abbot of Agaunum, he became the tenth Bishop of Sion in Valais in Switzerland. As a result of a false accusation, he was exiled to the monastery of Péronne and then to Breuil near Arras in the north of France, where he lived as one of the monks.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Many other details are related here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/132.html

France/Switzerland/Italy:

6^th – St Chainoaldus (Chagnoald, Cagnou). + 633. Brother of St Faro and St Fara. A disciple of St Columbanus, with whom he went to Bobbio in Italy and helped found the monastery. He later became Bishop of Laon in France.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0906d.html

Gaza:

8th – Sts Eusebius, Nestablus, Zeno, and Nestor, Martyrs. IN the reign of Julian the Apostate, Eusebius, Nestablus, and Zeno, three zealous Christian brothers at Gaza, were seized by the pagans in their houses, where they had concealed themselves: they were carried to prison, and inhumanly scourged. Afterwards the idolaters, who were assembled in the amphitheatre at the public shows, began loudly to demand the punishment of the sacrilegious criminals, as they called the confessors. By these cries the assembly soon became a tumult; and the people worked themselves into such a ferment that they ran in a fury to the prison, which they forced, and hauling out the three brothers, began to drag them, sometimes on their bellies, sometimes on their backs, bruising them against the pavement, and striking them with clubs, stones, or any thing that came in their way. The very women, quitting their work, ran the points of their spindles into them, and the cooks took the kettles from off the fire, poured the scalding water upon them, and pierced them with their spits. . . . The rest is at https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/084.html .

Germany:

15^th – Greatmartyr Nicetas the Goth (+372). He was a Goth of noble birth among his people, a disciple of Bishop Theophilus of the Goths, who took part in the First Ecumenical Council. When he confronted Athanaric, the pagan ruler of the Goths, for his persecution of Christians and for his unbelief, Nicetas was cruelly tortured and finally burned to death. Though he died in the flames, his body was brought forth unharmed. His relics were taken by his friend Marianus to Mopsuestia in Cilicia, where a church dedicated to the Saint was built.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

For a longer account: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/15/102615-greatmartyr-niketas-the-goth

Germany/France:

22^nd – St Florentius. + 5th cent. Born in Bavaria in Germany, he was a disciple of St Martin of Tours, by whom he was ordained priest and sent to preach in Poitou in France. He eventually went to live as a hermit at Mt Glonne in Anjou, where he gained numerous disciples. He built a monastery for them later known as Saint-Florent-le-Vieux. He reposed there in extreme old age.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Germany/Sweden/Denmark:

17^th – St Uni. + 936. A monk at New Corvey in Germany, in 917 he became Bishop of Bremen-Hamburg. He helped enlighten Sweden and Denmark and reposed in Birka in Sweden.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Greece:

21^st – Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy (+130). He was one of the Seventy appointed by Christ Himself. After Christ's Ascension, Quadratus preached the Gospel in Athens, then served as a bishop in Athens, then in Magnesia. He was stoned by the pagans, then imprisoned and starved to death in prison. It is said that he wrote a defense of the Christian faith which caused the Emperor Hadrian to decree that Christians were not to be persecuted without special cause. He was buried in Magnesia.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

See also: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/21/102683-apostle-quadratus-of-the-seventy

Ireland:

9^th – St Ciaran of Clonmacnoise (+549). Born to the family of a cartwright in Ireland, he entered monastic life when he was very young at the Monastery of Clonard, where he became a disciple of St Finnian (December 12). He became one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland', all of them disciples of St Finnian. Ciaran founded the great monastery of Clonmacnoise (pronounced clon-mac-neesh) on the Shannon River, which became one of Ireland's great monasteries. Once, during a great famine, He distributed all of the monastery's food to the people, entrusting his monks' survival, and his own, to providence. Saint Ciaran reposed in peace, aged only thirty-three, in 459.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

Longer accounts are here:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/09/102553-saint-ciaran-of-clonmacnoise

https://orthochristian.com/73745.html

12^th – St Ailbhe of Emly (+6^th hundredyear). THIS saint, who is honoured as chief patron of Munster, one of the four provinces of Ireland, was converted by certain Britons, and had travelled to Rome before the arrival of St. Patrick among the Irish. After his return home, he became the disciple and fellow-labourer of that great apostle of his country, and being ordained by him first archbishop of Munster, fixed his see at Emly, 1 which has been long since removed to Cashel. With such a commanding authority did this apostolic man deliver the dictates of eternal wisdom to a rude and barbarous people, such was the force with which, both by words and example, he set forth the sanctity of the divine law, and so evident were the miracles with which he confirmed the heavenly truths which he preached, that the sacred doctrine easily made its way to the hearts of his hearers; and he not only brought over an incredible multitude to the faith of Christ, but infused into many the perfect spirit of the gospel, possessing a wonderful art of making men not only Christians but saints. King Engus having bestowed on him the isle of Arran, he founded in it a great monastery, which was so famous for the sanctity of its inhabitants, that from them the island was long called Arran of Saints. . . . The rest is at

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

23rd – St Adomnan (+704). St. Adomnan (also Adamnan, Eunan) was born in Ireland in about 625, approximately on the site of the present-day small town of Raphoe in County Donegal in Ulster. His father’s name was Ronan and his mother was called Ronat. The venerable man studied at one of the monasteries founded by St. Columba of Iona (who was probably a distant relative) in Ireland before he moved to Scotland. The young Adomnan soon became famous for his learning, brilliant knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and theology, fine teaching abilities and holiness of personal life. It is believed that for a short time Adomnan studied and taught at the Irish Monastery of Durrow. Historians suggest that for some time the saint headed the Skreen Monastery in the Irish county of Sligo; the area where this monastery stood once was known as “the Seals’ Hill”. Later the man of God moved to Scotland, to the great monastery of Iona, where he led the monastic life under Abbot Segene. In the year 679, aged about fifty-five, Adomnan himself became the tenth abbot of this prominent monastery and, thus, one of the successors of great Columba. Adomnan was one of the wisest and most active abbots in the whole history of Iona. From time to time he made journeys to the north of England and Ireland to spread the Good News of Christ. He also undertook a successful mission to the Scottish area now known as Perth and Kinross, especially to the long glen (a narrow valley in Scotland) called Glen Lyon. . . . The rest is at

https://orthochristian.com/86489.html

25th – St Finbarr, first bishop of Cork (+610). St. Finbarr (also spelled Findbarr, Barra, Barr, Barry) was  descended from a clan in the south-western Irish kingdom (now province) of Connacht, which is also spelled Connaught, in the mid-sixth century. In all probability his birthplace was at Lisnacaheragh in what is now county Cork in the south of Ireland. His father was a metalworker and his mother was a royal slave. The name “Finbarr” means “a white head” because he was born fair-haired. This name was given him when he was tonsured, but his original baptismal name was Lochan. Young Finbarr may have studied at a monastery in Kilkenny and also at Macroom – a town in the present-day county Cork. St. Finbarr with several companions made at least two pilgrimages to Rome and also visited Wales where he communicated with St. David of Mynyw, the patron-saint of that country. St. Finbarr preached energetically in the south of Ireland and, according to some traditions, also in Scotland, though there is no written evidence to confirm that. The saint of God spent a part of his life as an anchorite in full seclusion on an island in lake Gougane Barra in county Cork. With time the holy ascetic was joined by numerous disciples, mainly from southern Ireland, and St. Finbarr founded a monastery and a school near his hermitage at Gougane Barra, both of which became very famous and attracted a large number of monks and students from the southern part of the emerald island. The saint also erected at least several churches in the neighboring area and one chapel at Kilbarry – a site associated with his family. . . . The rest is at

https://orthochristian.com/97682.html

See also https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2019/09/saint-finbarr-bishop-of-cork.html

26^th – St Colman Elo. + c 610. A nephew of St Columba, he founded monasteries in Lynally (Land-Elo, Lin-Alli) and in Muckamore in Ireland. He is credited as the author of the Alphabet of Devotion.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

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

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0926a.html

https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T201036.html

Ireland/England/Scotland:

6^th – St Bega (Begh, Bee). 7th cent. A holy virgin from Ireland who founded a convent at what is now St Bee's Head in Cumberland. The village of Kilbees in Scotland was also named after her.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

More details are here: http://orthochristian.com/82258.html

Ireland/France/Germany:

8^th – St Disibod (Disibode, Disen). + c 700. Born in Ireland, he went to Germany with several companions and founded a monastery on a hill in the valley of the Nahe near Bingen. This became known as Disibodenberg or Disenberg.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/086.html

Ireland/Austria/Germany:

24^th – Sts Chuniald and Gislar. + 7th cent. Born in Ireland, they enlightened the south of Germany and Austria with St Rupert of Salzburg.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Ireland/Germany/France:

17^th – St Rouin. + c 690. A monk and priest from Ireland who preached in Germany and entered the monastery of Tholey near Trier. He moved to the forest of Argonn in France where he founded the monastery of Wasloi, later known as Beaulieu.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/174.html

Ireland/Scotland:

15^th – St Merinus (+620). Saint Mirin, a contemporary of Saint Columba, was a disciple of Saint Comgall at Bangor (County Down). He had a powerful influence in the area of Strathclyde, south of Glasgow, Scotland. There he founded and was abbot of Paisley abbey, where he died and was buried. His shrine became a pilgrimage centre. Mirin is venerated in both Ireland and Scotland, where there is a chapel dedicated to him among the ruins of Inch Murryn, the largest island in Loch Lomond.

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0915b.html

Ireland/Switzerland:

27^th – St Marcellus (+869). Born in Ireland, he became a monk at St Gall in Switzerland.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

The Irish with some merit claim him as the instigator of the cultural eminence of Saint Gall. . . . In the 19th century, H. Zimmer wrote: "In my opinion, there were very few men who in the middle of the 9th century exerted such a beneficent influence upon the German mind in the cultivation of the higher arts and sciences as Moengal and his followers." The abbey necrology calls Marcellus "the most learned and excellent man".

More at https://celticsaints.org/2020/0927c.html

Italy and across the West:

29^th – The Feast of St Michael the Archangel/Dedication of the Church of St Michael the Archangel on Mt Gargano, Italy.

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

More on the Holy Angels:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/11/08/103244-synaxis-of-the-archangel-michael-and-the-other-bodiless-powers

Old Rome:

11^th – Sts Protus and Hyacinth. + c 257. By tradition brothers, they were both servants and were martyred in Rome. The relics of St Hyacinth were uncovered in 1845.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/111.html

15th – St Nicomedes. HE was a holy priest at Rome, who was apprehended in the persecution of Domitian for his assiduity in assisting the martyrs in their conflicts, and for interring their bodies. Refusing constantly to sacrifice to idols, he was beaten to death with clubs about the year 90.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/152.html

16^th – Sts Abundius, Abundantius, Marcian and John. + c 303. The first two were martyred in Rome on the Flaminian Way under the Emperor Diocletian who ordered them to be beheaded together with Marcian, a senator, and John, his son, whom Abundius had raised from the dead.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

16^th – St Cornelius (+253). Pope of Rome, he was much tried by the heresy of Novatianism and his persecutors exiled him to Civita Vecchia where his sufferings probably hastened his death. St Cyprian refers to him as a martyr. His tomb in Lucina in the cemetery of Callistus still exists.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

For more about St Cornelius and the persecutions against the Orthodox Church at this time: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/161.html

17^th - Martyrs Sophia and her three daughters Faith, Hope and Love, at Rome (+137). Sophia was a widow in Rome in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, and raised her three daughters in the Faith. When the four of them were brought before the persecutors, Faith was twelve years old, Hope was ten, and Love was nine. Ordered to make sacrifice to the goddess Artemis, all of them humbly refused. All three daughters were tortured, then executed, before their mother's eyes. Sophia buried their bodies and mourned at their grave for three days and nights, then fell asleep in peace. For her steadfastness and solidarity with her daughters' sufferings she is counted as a martyr along with them. Sophia means "wisdom" in Greek; the three daughters' names in Greek are Pistis, Elpis, and Agape; in Russian, Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov. They are represented on many icons.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/17/102638-martyr-sophia-and-her-three-daughters-at-rome

20^th – Great Martyr Eustathios Placidas and his wife and children, also martyred with him (+118). We open with a portion of their life, but the whole thing deserves to be read by all Christians. Before his Baptism, the Holy Great Martyr Eustáthios was named Plakidas (Πλακίδας). He was a Roman General in the reigns of Emperors Titus (79-81) and Trajan (98-117). Even before he came to know Christ, Plakidas devoted himself to charitable endeavors, helping the poor and destitute. Therefore, the Lord did not allow this virtuous pagan to continue in the darkness of idolatry. One day, while hunting in a forest, he saw a remarkable stag which stopped now and then to stare at him. Plakidas pursued it on horseback, but could not catch up. The stag jumped over a chasm and stood on the other side facing him. Suddenly, Plakidas saw a radiant Cross between its antlers. The General was astonished to hear a voice coming from the Cross saying, “Why do you pursue me, Plakidas?” “Who are You, Master?” asked Plakidas. The voice replied, “I am Jesus Christ, Whom you do not know, but by your good deeds, you honor me. I have appeared here on this creature for your sake, to draw you into the net of my love for mankind. It is not fitting that one as righteous as you should worship idols and remain ignorant of the truth. It was to save mankind that I came into the world.” Plakidas cried out, “Lord, I believe that You are the God of Heaven and earth, the Creator of all things. Master, teach me what I should do.” Again the Lord replied, “Go to the bishop of your country and receive Baptism from him, and he will instruct you.” . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/20/102674-greatmartyr-eustthios-placidas-with-his-wife-and-children-of-rom

20^th – St Agapitus I, Bishop of Rome. + 536. Born in Rome, he was elected Pope of Rome in May 535 and reposed in Constantinople on April 22 536. As Pope he showed great strength of character in opposing Monophysitism. His relics were brought back to Rome on Sept 20, when he was commemorated a second time.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Agapetus_I_of_Rome

23^rd – St Linus, Bishop of Rome (+ c. 78), first pope, Martyr. A disciple of the Apostle Paul, he was consecrated by him. One of the Seventy Apostles, he is mentioned in 2 Timothy 4,21. He was pope for about twelve years and may have been martyred. Feast: 23 September (In the East 4 January and 5 November).

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/ortpopes.htm

Old Rome/Palestine.

28^th – St Eustochium. c 370-419. Born in Rome, she was the third daughter of St Paula. She joined her mother in Bethlehem and succeeded her mother as abbess of a convent in Bethlehem in 404.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

For more about her life: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/283.html

30^th – St Jerome. c 341-420. Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius was born at Stridon in Dalmatia. He studied in Rome, travelled in Italy and Gaul, lived as a hermit in Palestine and then returned to Rome where he was ordained. He finally went back to Palestine and settled in Bethlehem. He spent the rest of his life translating and commenting on the Bible.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/06/15/101732-saint-jerome-hieronymus-of-stridon

Palestine:

1^st – Righteous Joshua, son of Nun.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/01/102456-righteous-joshua-son-of-nun-navi

5th – Holy Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth, father and mother of Saint John the Baptist.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/05/102502-holy-prophet-zachariah-and-righteous-elizabeth-parents-of-saint

22^nd – Holy Prophet Jonah.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/22/102696-prophet-jonah

28^th – Holy Prophet Baruch, scribe of the Prophet Jeremiah. As John Brady of abbamoses.com says, ‘The prophetical book that bears his name is not included in the Protestant canon of scripture; if your Bible does not contain it, look for another Bible.’

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/28/102745-prophet-baruch

Palestine/Africa:

11^th – St Euphrosynus the Cook (+9^th hundredyear). An humble kitchen-worker in a monastery who because of his humility and other great virtues was granted to walk in Paradise while in the flesh. When his brother monks discovered how holy he was, he fled his monastery for the wilderness to escape the praises of men.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/11/102581-saint-euphrosynus-the-cook-of-alexandria

Palestine/Asia Minor:

4^th – St Hermione, Daughter of St Phillip the Deacon. She was one of the four daughters of the Apostle Philip the Deacon (October 11). As we read in the Acts of the Apostles (21:8), all four were virgins and prophets. Her fame as a prophetess and a worker of miraculous healings attracted the attention of the Emperor Hadrian, under whose tribunal she was cruelly tortured. It is written that throughout her torments the only sounds that came from her lips were verses of the Psalms. At last she was sentenced to death; when the executioners raised the sword to behead her they were struck with paralysis, but St Hermione healed them by her prayer. At this, the executioners believed in Christ and laid down the sword. Saint Hermione was buried at Ephesus.

http://www.abbamoses.com/months/september.html

A longer account is here:  https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/04/102492-martyr-hermione-daughter-of-saint-philip-the-deacon

13^th – St Cornelius the Centurion, Martyr-Bishop. Most know him through the Book of Acts (ch. 10), but his missionary work after his baptism is also well worth reading about:

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/13/102594-hieromartyr-cornelius-the-centurion

Russia:

25^th – St Sergius of Radonezh (+1392), the greatest Saint of Russia.

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/25/102725-repose-of-venerable-sergius-the-wonderworker-abbot-of-radonezh

30^th – St Michael, first bishop of Kiev (+992).

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/30/102820-saint-michael-first-metropolitan-of-kiev

Hymns to the Saint:

The prophecy of the first-called apostle has been fulfilled today: / Grace has illumined the hills of Kiev and the faith is increased. / Those who were not a people / are now the people of God, a holy nation, / a flock of Christ of which you, O Michael, are first shepherd, / and you serve it by bringing baptism. / O Hierarch, standing before God pray that all may be saved!

You appeared as a second Moses, / bringing the vine from Egyptian idolatry into the land of promise. / You said of it: Faith shall be established in this land, / and fruit to nourish the world shall flourish on the summits of Kiev, / more than on the heights of Lebanon. / Having this harvest we bless you, O Hierarch Michael!

https://www.oca.org/saints/troparia/2020/09/30/102820-saint-michael-first-metropolitan-of-kiev

Spain:

17^th – St Columba. + 853. Born in Cordoba and a nun at Tábanos, she was driven from there by the Moorish persecution of 852. She took refuge in Cordoba in Spain, where, being called on to deny Christ, she openly rejected Mohammed and was beheaded.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/172.html

23rd – Sts Polyxene and Xanthippe, early preachers of the Gospel in Spain. The Monastic Women Xanthippe and Polyxene were sisters by birth and they lived in Spain in the time of the holy Apostles. They were among the first to hear the divine teaching of Christ the Savior from the holy Apostle Paul, when he preached in their land. Saint Xanthippe and her husband Probus accepted Christianity, but Saint Polyxene was still a pagan when a certain man became entranced with her extraordinary beauty and forcibly carried her off to Greece on a ship. . . . The rest is at

https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2020/09/23/102705-saints-polyxene-and-xanthippe-disciples-of-the-apostles-who-died

Switzerland/France:

5^th – St Bertin. + c 709. Born near Constance, he became a monk at Luxeuil in France. He helped St Omer, Bishop of Thérouanne and became Abbot of Sithin (afterwards called St Bertin). The monastery prospered under him and he founded many new monasteries.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

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

9^th – St Omer. c 595-670. Born near Constance in Switzerland, he became a monk at Luxeuil and after some twenty years Bishop of Thérouanne in the north of France. In order to enlighten the region, St Omer covered the area with monasteries. The saint himself helped found the monastery of Sithin, around which grew up the town now known as Saint Omer.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Much more about this great Saint is told here: https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/092.html

Thrace:

29^th – St Theodota (+318), a harlot who repented of her sins and suffered martyrdom after cruel tortures, steadfastly refusing to deny Christ.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/292.html

Venice/Hungary:

24^th – St Gerard Sagredo. + 1046. Apostle of Hungary, where he is venerated as St Collert. Born in Venice, he was a monk and Abbot of San Giorgio Maggiore. On a pilgrimage to Palestine he was stopped while travelling through Hungary by King Stephen and persuaded to stay. He became the first Bishop of Csanad. Gerard worked zealously, but during the pagan reaction after St Stephen he was martyred in Buda and his body was thrown into the Danube.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

Much more:

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/241.html

Wales:

11^th – St Deiniol of Bangor (+584). St. Deiniol (the Welsh from of Daniel) lived in the sixth century. He was a descendant of one Celtic ruler in Northern Britain. As a young man Deiniol probably studied at the monastery of the saintly Abbot Cadoc in Llancarfan, Wales. He also may have lived as hermit in Pembrokeshire for some while. But our saint of God, above all, is famous for establishing two monasteries in Wales with the name “Bangor”: the first was called “Bangor Fawr” (now the city of Bangor in Gwynedd), while the second was called “Bangor Iscoed”¹ (now the village of Bangor-on-Dee on the River Dee in Wrexham). St. Deiniol may have served as abbot of both monasteries – Bangor Fawr and Bangor on the River Dee - which gained wide renown all over Britain. According to the Venerable Bede, Bangor Fawr Monastery over a short period of time became one of the greatest monastic centers among Britons and no fewer than 2000 monks lived in it. Tradition says that Deiniol was not only abbot, but also the first bishop of the newly-established Diocese of Bangor, which exists to this day. . . . The rest is at

https://orthochristian.com/82345.html

17th – Sts Socrates and Stephen. THEIR names are illustrious in the British Martyrologies. They suffered during the persecution of Dioclesian. Many churches in Wales were formerly dedicated to their memory; and they are thought to have glorified God by their death in that part of Britain.

https://www.bartleby.com/210/9/175.html

27^th – St Barrog (+7^th hundredyear). 7th cent. A disciple of St Cadoc of Wales, he left his name to Barry Island off the coast of Glamorgan, where he lived as a hermit. His chapel became a famous pilgrimage site.

http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdsep.htm

https://celticsaints.org/2020/0927a.html

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