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Saints of the day

Orthodox saints of September

Every day of September in the Orthodox calendar, with its feasts and principal saints.

  • September 1 — Church New Year (Indiction); St. Symeon the Stylite the Elder
  • September 2 — Martyr Mamas of Caesarea; St. John the Faster
  • September 3 — Hieromartyr Anthimus of Nicomedia; St. Theoctistus
  • September 4 — Hieromartyr Babylas of Antioch; Prophet Moses the God-seer
  • September 5 — Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth, parents of the Forerunner
  • September 6 — Commemoration of the Miracle of Archangel Michael at Colossae
  • September 7 — Forefeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos; Martyr Sozon
  • September 8 — The Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • September 9 — Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna
  • September 10 — Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora
  • September 11 — St. Theodora of Alexandria; St. Euphrosynus the Cook
  • September 12 — Leavetaking of the Nativity of the Theotokos; Hieromartyr Autonomus
  • September 13 — Forefeast of the Exaltation; Dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  • September 14 — The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross
  • September 15 — Great Martyr Nicetas the Goth; St. Symeon of Thessalonica
  • September 16 — Great Martyr Euphemia the All-praised
  • September 17 — Martyrs Sophia and her daughters Faith, Hope and Love
  • September 18 — St. Eumenes, Bishop of Gortyna
  • September 19 — Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius and Dorymedon
  • September 20 — Great Martyr Eustathius Placidas and his family
  • September 21 — Leavetaking of the Exaltation; Apostle Quadratus
  • September 22 — Hieromartyr Phocas, Bishop of Sinope
  • September 23 — Conception of St. John the Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist
  • September 24 — Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla; St. Silouan the Athonite
  • September 25 — St. Euphrosyne of Alexandria; Repose of St. Sergius of Radonezh
  • September 26 — Repose of the Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
  • September 27 — Martyr Callistratus and his 49 companions
  • September 28 — St. Chariton the Confessor; Prophet Baruch
  • September 29 — St. Cyriacus the Anchorite
  • September 30 — Hieromartyr Gregory, Enlightener of Armenia

Commemorations follow the Menaion of the Orthodox Church. New Calendar parishes keep them on the date shown; Old Calendar parishes keep them 13 days later on the civil calendar. Local churches add their own saints — your parish calendar comes first.