September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Sep. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 18

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Sep. 30 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyrs Sophia and her three daughters Faith (Vera the Martyr), Hope (Nadezhda), and Love (Lyubov) at Rome (137)
• Martyr Agathocleia (230)
• Martyr Theodota at Nicaea (230)
• Martyrs Archbishop Peleus, Archbishop Nilus, Presbyter Zeno, noblemen Patermuthius and Elias, and 156 others of Palestine
• Martyrs Lucy and her son Geminian of Rome (303)
• Hieromartyr Heraclides and Hieromartyr Myron, bishops of Cyprus
• Hieromartyr Lambert of Maastricht
• 1000 martyrs of Egypt
• Martyrs Charalampus, Pantelon, and others
• Saint Anastasius of Cyprus, monk
• Saint Eusipius of Cyprus, monk

[edit] Other Commemorations

• Repose of Blessed Agapitus, disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1825)
• Repose of Blessed Matthew of Petersburg (1904)