September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Sep. 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar

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

Other Commemorations

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

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