September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 21

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 7.

Saints

 * Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas, his wife Martyr Theopistes, and their sons Martyrs Agapius and Theopistus, of Rome (118)
 * Martyrs Artemidorus and Thallos, by the sword.
 * Martyr John the Confessor, of Egypt, beheaded in Palestine, and with him 40 martyrs (295 or 310)
 * Saints Theodore and Euprepius, and two men named Anastasius (7th century), confessors and disciples of Saint Maximos the Confessor.
 * Hieromartyrs Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus and Andrew the Presbyter, Confessors of the Holy Icons, under Leo III the Isaurian (8th century)  (see also: September 21)
 * Venerable John the Godbearer, of Crete, monk (1031)
 * Venerable Meletius of Cyprus, Bishop.  (see also: September 21)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Candida, a virgin-martyr in Carthage in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus (c. 300)
 * Saint Glycerius, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (438)
 * Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536)  (see also: April 17 - East)
 * Saint Vincent Madelgarius, Benedictine monk (677)
 * Saint Eusebia of Saint-Cyr, Benedictine Abbess of a convent in Marseilles in France, martyred with some forty nuns by the Saracens at Saint-Cyr (c. 731)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Eustathius of Thessalonica, Archbishop of Thessalonica (1197)
 * Holy Martyrs Blessed Prince Michael of Chernigov, and his counsellor Theodore of Chernigov, Wonderworkers (1245)
 * Saint Oleg Romanovich, Prince of Bryansk (1285)
 * Right-believing Prince John of Putyvl, Ukraine (14th century)
 * New Monk-martyr Hilarion the Cretan, of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1804)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus Smelnitsky and Alexander Tetiuyev, Priests (1937)

Other commemorations

 * Synaxis of the icon of Panagia Voulkaniotissa, in Messinia (1755)
 * Synaxis of the Saints of Bryansk.