September 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Sep. 4 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 6
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Sep. 18 by Old Calendarists
[edit] Saints
- Holy Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth parents of Saint John the Baptist and Forerunner
- Martyrdom of the holy passion-bearer Gleb (1015)
- Martyrs Urban, Theodore, Medimus and 77 others at Nicomedia (370)
- Martyr Obadiah, Bishop of Persia (5th century)
- Martyr Sarbelus of Edessa
- Virgin-martyr Rhais of Alexandria (308)
- Martyrs Juventinus and Maximus, soldiers at Antioch (361,363)
- Martyr Athanasius, Abbot, of Brest (1648)