September 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Sep. 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 10
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar
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)
Other commemorations
- Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos
- Commemoration of the Third Ecumenical Council (431)
- Uncovering of the relics of Saint Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov (1896)
- Repose of Elder Joachim of St. Anne's Skete on Mount Athos (1950)
References
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