September 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

September 13 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 15

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 27 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 14th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 1.

Feasts

 * The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross.

Saints

 * Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305)   (see also: March 16)
 * Martyr Theocles, by the sword.
 * Child-martyr Valerianus, by the sword.
 * Saint Placilla the Empress (Aelia Flaccilla), wife of St. Theodosius the Great (400)
 * Saint Maria of Tarsus (607)
 * Saint Pelagios of Lefkada, Bishop of Lefkada, who took part in the Sixth Ecumenical Council (7th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Caerealis and Sallustia, martyred in Rome (251)
 * Saints Crescentian, Victor, Rosula and Generalis, martyrs in North Africa who suffered at the same time and place as St Cyprian (c. 258)
 * Saint Crescentius of Rome, child-martyr, martyred in Rome (c. 300)
 * Saint Maternus II, Bishop of Cologne in Germany (c. 325)
 * Saint Cormac, probably the first Bishop of Cashel in Ireland (908)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable New Martyr Macarius of Thessaloniki and Mount Athos, disciple of St. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1527)
 * Saint Gerasimos the New, founder of the sacred monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia, near Makrinitsa (1740)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407)
 * Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681)  (see also: January 23)
 * Lesna Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1683)
 * Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Sts. Alexandra (1789), Martha (1829), and Helen (1832), of Diveyevo Monastery.
 * The Appearance of the Sign of the Holy Cross over the church of St. John the Theologian at Mount Hymettus in suburban Athens, on the eve of the Feast of the Exaltation of the All-Honourable and Life-giving Cross (1925)
 * Repose of Bishop Arsenius (Zhadanovsky) of Serpukhov (1937)
 * Repose of Archpriest Sergius Siderov of Kiev (1937)
 * Repose of Priest Michael Shik of Moscow (1937)