September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Sep. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 24

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 6 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Martyrs Andrew, John, Peter, and Antoninus of Syracuse, martyred in Africa (9th century)
• Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Alexandria (310)
• Saints Xanthippa and Polyxena, disciples of the Apostles, who died in Spain
• Martyr Nicholas Pantopolis at Constantinople (1672)
• Martyr John of Epirus (1814)
• New martyr Arsenius, archimandrite (1937)
• Saint Adamnan, biographer of Saint Columba

[edit] Other Commemorations

• The Conception of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
• Repose of Abbess Eupraxia of Old Ladoga Convent (1823)