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Saints of the Orthodox Calendar

Discover the saints, martyrs, confessors, prophets and holy feasts commemorated throughout the ecclesiastical year.

A searchable register of fixed commemorations

2,929 recorded entries · 366 Julian dates

Browse by feast day, search a name, or narrow the collection by month and rank. The ecclesiastical year begins in September. Old Calendar dates are shown first, followed by a civil-date reference.

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This is the website's existing fixed-commemoration register, not yet a verified transcription of every name in the Greek Liturgical Texts Menaion. Entries include collective commemorations and feasts, so the total is not a count of individual saints. Movable feasts belong to the separate Paschal calendar.

Holy Fathers who resisted heresy →Consult the original Greek liturgical texts ↗

Researched life and witness · 11 June Julian

Saint Zafeirios the New Martyr

Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζαφείριος ὁ Νεομάρτυς

A young Orthodox Christian who, according to a testimony preserved in a Mount Athos manuscript, refused forced conversion to Islam and was killed for remaining faithful to Christ.

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2,929 commemorations · showing the first 96

Julian date first · civil date second

Julian

01

Sep

Civil reference

14 September

  • Saint

    Church New Year

  • Saint

    Saint Simeon Stylites, the Elder

  • Venerable

    Venerable Martha, mother of Saint Simeon Stylites

  • Martyr

    Martyr Aithalas of Persia

  • Martyr

    Holy Forty Women Martyrs and Martyr Ammon the Deacon, their teacher, at Heraclea in Thrace

  • Saint

    Martyrs Callista and her brothers, Evodius and Hermogenes, at Nicomedia

  • Saint

    Righteous Joshua, son of Nun (Navi)

  • Saint

    Finding of the Icon of the Mother of God at the Miasena Monastery

  • Saint

    “Chernigov-Gethsemane” Icon of the Mother of God

  • Saint

    Saint Meletius the New

  • Saint

    “All Blessed” Icon of the Mother of God

  • Venerable

    Venerable Evanthia

Julian

02

Sep

Civil reference

15 September

  • Venerable

    Venerable Anthony of the Kiev Far Caves

  • Venerable

    Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Far Caves

  • Martyr

    Martyr Mamas of Caesarea in Cappadocia

  • Saint

    Martyrs Theodotus and Rufina of Caesarea, in Cappadocia

  • Hierarch

    Saint John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople

  • Saint

    3,628 Martyrs who suffered at Nicomedia

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Kaluga

Julian

03

Sep

Civil reference

16 September

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia and those with him

  • Venerable

    Venerable Theoctistus

  • Martyr

    Holy Martyr Euthymius

  • Saint

    Blessed John “the Hairy” and Fool-For-Christ at Rostov

  • Saint

    Saint Phoebe the Deaconess at Cenchreae near Corinth

  • Martyr

    Martyr Basilissa of Nicomedia

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Aristion, Bishop of Alexandria

  • Hierarch

    Saint Joannicius, first Patriarch of Serbia

  • Saint

    Pisidia Icon of the Mother of God

  • Martyr

    Martyr Polydorus of Cyprus

Julian

04

Sep

Civil reference

17 September

  • Martyr

    Martyr Gorazd of Prague, Bohemia and Moravo-Cilezsk

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Babylas, Bishop of Antioch, and those with him

  • Prophet

    Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses

  • Hierarch

    Uncovering of the relics of Saint Joasaph, Bishop of Belgorod

  • Martyr

    Martyr Hermione, daughter of Saint Philip the Deacon

  • Martyr

    Martyr Babylas of Nicomedia and 84 children with him

  • Saint

    Martyrs Theodore, Mianus, Julian, Kion, and Centurionus, of Nicomedia

  • Saint

    “Unburnt Bush” Icon of the Mother of God

  • Hierarch

    Second finding of the relics of Saint Metrophanes, Bishop of Voronezh

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Serbia

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Peter, Metropolitan of Dabro-Bosnia

  • Saint

    Igoumen Parthenios of Kiziltash Monastery

  • Venerable

    Venerable Simeon the Wonderworker

Julian

05

Sep

Civil reference

18 September

  • Prophet

    Holy Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth, parents of Saint John the Baptist

  • Martyr

    Martyr Athanasius, Abbot of Bretsk

  • Saint

    Passion-Bearer Gleb (in Baptism David)

  • Martyr

    Martyr Tathuil, and his sister, Bebaia

  • Martyr

    Martyr Sarbelus of Edessa

  • Saint

    Martyrs Juventinus and Maximus the soldiers, at Antioch

  • Saint

    Martyrs Urban, Theodore, Medimnus, and 77 companions, at Nicomedia

  • Martyr

    Martyr Abdias (Abidas) of Persia

Julian

06

Sep

Civil reference

19 September

  • Saint

    Commemoration of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae

  • Saint

    Martyrs Eudoxius, Zeno, and Macarius

  • Saint

    Saint Archippus of Herapolis

  • Martyr

    Martyr Romulus and with him many others

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Cyril, Bishop of Gortyna

  • Saint

    Martyrs Cyriacus, Faustus the Presbyter, Abibas the Deacon, and 11 others, at Alexandria

  • Saint

    Saint David of Hermopolis, Egypt

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Maxim Sandovich

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Kiev-Bratsk

  • Saint

    “Arapet” Icon of the Mother of God

Julian

07

Sep

Civil reference

20 September

  • Feast

    Forefeast of the Nativity of the Mother of God

  • Martyr

    Martyr Sozon of Cilicia

  • Hierarch

    Saint John the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Novgorod

  • Venerable

    Venerable Serapion of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery, Pskov

  • Hieromartyr

    Hieromartyr Macarius, Archimandrite of Kanev and Pereyaslavl

  • Apostle

    Apostle Evodius (Euodias) of the Seventy

  • Apostle

    Apostle Onesiphorus of the Seventy

  • Martyr

    Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea, in Cappadocia

  • Venerable

    Venerable Luke, Abbot of Batheos Ryako

  • Venerable

    Venerable Cloud (Clodoald), Abbot-Founder of Nogent-Sur-Seine near Paris

  • Venerable

    Venerable Macarius of Optina

  • Venerable

    Venerable Cassiani the Hymnographer

Julian

08

Sep

Civil reference

21 September

  • Feast

    The Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign”, the “Kursk-Root”

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Pochaev

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Kholm

  • Saint

    Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Syamsk

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Glinsk

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Domnitsa

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Isaakov

  • Saint

    Icon of the Mother of God of Lukianov

  • Saint

    “Kathariotissa” Icon of the Mother of God

Julian

09

Sep

Civil reference

22 September

  • Feast

    Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Mother of God

  • Saint

    Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna

  • Martyr

    Martyr Severian of Sebaste

  • Venerable

    Venerable Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk, Volotsk

  • Hierarch

    Uncovering of the relics of Saint Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov

  • Venerable

    Venerable Theophanes the Confessor and Faster of Mount Diabenos

  • Martyr

    Martyr Chariton

  • Saint

    Blessed Nikḗtas the Hidden of Constantinople

  • Saint

    Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Third Ecumenical Council

  • Saint

    Saint Ciaran of Clonmacnoise

Julian

10

Sep

Civil reference

23 September

  • Feast

    Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Mother of God

  • Saint

    Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora, at Nicomedia

  • Venerable

    Venerable Paul the Obedient, of the Kiev Caves