September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Sep. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 24
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar
Saints
- Martyrs Andrew, John, Peter, and Antoninus of Syracuse, martyred in Africa (9th century)
- Virgin-martyr Irais (Saint Rais) of Alexandria (310)
- Saints Xanthippa and Polyxena, disciples of the Apostles, who died in Spain (109)
- Martyr Nicholas Pantopolis at Constantinople (1672)
- Martyr John of Ioannina, Epirus (1814)
- New martyr Arsenius, archimandrite (1937)
- Saint Adamnan, biographer of Saint Columba (704)
Other Commemorations
- The Conception of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
- Repose of Abbess Eupraxia of Old Ladoga Convent (1823)
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Jerome of Solovki (1847)
- Glorification (1977) of St. Innocent, metropolitan of Moscow, enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879)