September 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Sep. 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Sep. 22 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Saint Joachim and Saint Anne (parents of Mary the Mother of God)
• Martyr Severian of Sebaste (320)
• Venerable Joseph, abbot of Volokolamsk (1515)
• Saint Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov
• Martyr Chariton
• Martyr Straton
• Saint Theophanes the Confessor and Faster of Mt. Diabenos (300)
• Blessed Nicetas the Hidden of Constantinople (12th century)
• Venerable Joachim, abbot of Opochka Monastery in Pskov (17th century)

[edit] Other Commemorations

• Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos
• Uncovering of the relics of Saint Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov (1896)
• Repose of Elder Joachim of St. Anne's Skete on Mount Athos (1950)