September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 22

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For September 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 8.

Feasts

• Apodosis of the Exaltation of the Cross.[1][2][3]

Saints

• Prophet Jonah (8th century BC)[2][4][5][note 2] (see also: September 22 )
• Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy, Apologist (c. 130)[1][2][7][8]
• Martyr Eusebius of Phoenicia (2nd century)[1][2][9][note 3]
• Holy Six Martyrs, by the sword (298)[5][10]
• Martyr Priscus of Phrygia.[1][2][11]
• Martyrs Eusebius, Nestabus, Zeno, brothers, with Nestor and Busiris, of Gaza (360-363)[1][2][12]
• Martyr Bassa of Tyre.[2][5][13][note 4]
• Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus, and his Presbyter Andrew (730)[1][14][15]
• Venerable Jonah the Sabbaite (9th century)[1][2][14][16]
• Venerables Isaacius (Akakios)[17] and Meletius, Bishops of Sitis (Σίτης) in Cyprus.[1][2][14][note 5]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Alexander, a bishop in the neighbourhood of Rome (2nd century)[18][note 6][note 7]
• Saint Pamphilus, a martyr in Rome.[6][18]
• Saint Mabyn (Mabena), a Cornish saint (6th century)[18][note 8]
• Saint Gerulfus (Gerulph), a saint of Flanders (c. 746)[18][note 9]
• Saint Maura, a holy virgin in Troyes, she reposed at the age of twenty-three after a life of prayer and good works (850)[18]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Daniel, founder of Shuzhgorsk Monastery, Belozersk (16th century)[1][14][19]
• Saint Joseph, founder of Zaonikiev Monastery, Vologda (1612)[1][14][20][note 10]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Alexander Fedoseyev,[21] Alexis Stabnikov,[22] Constantine Shirokinsky, and John Flerov,[23] Priests (1918)[14][24]
• New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis), Protosyncellus of Metropolitan Germanos Karavangelis of Amasya (1921)[25][note 11][note 12]
• New Hieromartyr Theophan (Tuliakov), Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Belorussia (1937)[1][14][note 13]
• New Hieromartyr Maurice (Poletaev), Archimandrite, of Yuriev-Polsky, and with him Martyr Basil Kondratiev[29] (1937)[1][14][24]
• New Hieromartyrs Valentine Nikolsky,[30] Alexander Belyakov,[31] John Lazarev,[32] Andrew Benedictov,[33] Peter Sakharovsky, and John Nikolsky,[34] Priests (1937)[14][24]
• New Hieromartyr John Bystrov, Priest (1938)[14][24][35]
• New Hieromartyr Basil Krymkin, Priest (1942)[14][24][36]

Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics (1752) of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov (1709)[1][2][5][24][37][38]
• Repose of Arseny (Chagovstsov), Archbishop of Winnipeg (1945)[39][note 14]
• Repose of Priest Dumitru Staniloae of Romania (1993)[1]
• Synaxis of the Saints of Uglich.[1][14]
• Synaxis of the Church of "Panagia Giatrissa" ("The Healer"), on Therasia in the Greek Cyclades (1950s)[5]

Icon gallery

• 
  Prophet Jonah.
• 
  Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy.
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  Martyr Priscus of Phrygia.
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  Venerables Isaac and Meletius of Cyprus.
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  New Hieromartyr Platon (Aivazidis) of Amasya.
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  St. Demetrius of Rostov.
• 
  Abp. Arseny (Chagovstsov) of Winnipeg.
• 
  Priest Dumitru Staniloae.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "In the land of Saar, the holy prophet Jonas, who was buried in Geth."[6]
3. "In Phoenicia, St. Eusebius, martyr, who, of his own accord, went to the prefect, and declaring himself a Christian, was subjected by him to many torments, and finally beheaded."[6]
4. Her memory is recorded in the Synaxarion of Sirmond, with the phrase:

   • (in Greek) «Τῇ αὕτῃ ἥμερᾳ τῆς ἁγίας μάρτυρος Βάσσης τῆς Τυρίας». (It is unclear if "Tyria" refers to either "Tyre, Lebanon", or to "Tyros, Greece").

5. "In Cyprus, St. Isacius, bishop and martyr. In the same place, St. Meletius, bishop and confessor."[6] Venerable Meletius is also listed on September 20.
6. His miracles attracted the attention of the people and he was arrested and martyred on the Claudian Way, some twenty miles from Rome. His relics were enshrined in Rome.
7. "At twenty miles from Rome, on the Claudian way, the martyrdom of St. Alexander, bishop, in the time of the emperor Antoninus. For the faith of Christ he was loaded with fetters scourged, tortured, burned with torches, torn with iron hooks, exposed to the beasts and cast into the flames, but having overcome all these torments, he was finally beheaded, and so attained the glory of eternal life. His body was afterwards carried into the city by the blessed pope Damasus, on the 26th of November, on which day his feast is to be celebrated by order of the same Pontiff."[6]
8. Born either in Wales or else in Cornwall, preached Christ with St Teilo.
9. Born in Flanders in Belgium, he was heir to a vast estate, but was treacherously murdered by a relative who hoped to succeed to his inheritance. He died with words of forgiveness on his lips.
10. See: (in Russian) Иосиф Заоникиевский. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
11. On October 3, 2019, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople resolved to glorify seven New Martyrs of Kastoria, including New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis).[26][27][28]
    See: (in Greek) Πλάτων Αϊβαζίδης. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).
12. He was glorified at the proposal of Metropolitan Seraphim (Papakostas) of Kastoria, along with other martyrs of Kastoria. The resolution of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on October 3, 2019, was as follows:

    (in Greek) α) Ἀπεφασίσθη, τῇ εἰσηγήσει τῆς Κανονικῆς Ἐπιτροπῆς, κατόπιν θεωρήσεως τοῦ ἁρμοδίως διαβιβασθέντος τῇ Μητρί Ἐκκλησίᾳ σχετικοῦ αἰτήματος τοῦ Σεβ. Μητροπολίτου Καστορίας κ. Σεραφείμ, ἡ ἀναγραφή εἰς τό Ἁγιολόγιον τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας τῶν μαρτυρικῶς τελειωθέντων ὑπέρ τῆς ἀμωμήτου ἡμῶν πίστεως: α) Μάρκου Πέτρου Μαρκούλη ἐκ Κλεισούρας, β) Νούλτζου ἐκ Καστορίας, καί τῶν σύν αὐτῷ ἀθλησάντων, γ) Γεωργίου τοῦ ἐκ Καστορίας, δ) ἱερέως Βασιλείου Καλαπαλίκη, ἐφημερίου Χιλιοδεντρίου Καστορίας καί ε) Ἀρχιμανδρίτου Πλάτωνος Ἀϊβαζίδη.[26]

13. See: (in Russian) Феофан (Туляков). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
14. During its October 2004 holy synod meeting, bishops of the OCA established a glorification commission to inquire into the possibility for adding Abp. Arseny to the calendar of saints.

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30. (in Russian) ВАЛЕНТИН. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия).
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32. (in Russian) ИОАНН. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия).
33. (in Russian) АНДРЕЙ. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия).
34. (in Russian) ИОАНН. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия).
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