September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

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

Feasts

 * Apodosis of the Exaltation of the Cross.

Saints

 * Prophet Jonah (8th century BC) (see also: September 22 )
 * Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy, Apologist (c. 130)
 * Martyr Eusebius of Phoenicia (2nd century)
 * Holy Six Martyrs, by the sword (298)
 * Martyr Priscus of Phrygia.
 * Martyrs Eusebius, Nestabus, Zeno, brothers, with Nestor and Busiris, of Gaza (360-363)
 * Martyr Bassa of Tyre.


 * Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus, and his Presbyter Andrew (730) (see also: September 20)
 * Venerable Jonah the Sabbaite, the Presbiter (9th century), father of Sts. Theophanes the Hymnographer and Theodore Graptus   (see also: September 22 )
 * Venerables Isaacius (Akakios) and Meletius, Bishops of Sitis (Σίτης) in Cyprus.

Pre-Schism Western saints

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

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Daniel, founder of Shuzhgorsk Monastery, Belozersk (16th century)
 * Saint Joseph, founder of Zaonikiev Monastery, Vologda (1612)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs Alexander Fedoseyev, Alexis Stabnikov, Constantine Shirokinsky, and John Flerov, Priests (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis), Protosyncellus of Metropolitan Germanos Karavangelis of Amasya (1921)
 * New Hieromartyr Theophan (Tuliakov), Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Belorussia (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Maurice (Poletaev), Archimandrite, of Yuriev-Polsky, and with him Martyr Basil Kondratiev (1937)
 * New Hieromartyrs Valentine Nikolsky, Alexander Belyakov, John Lazarev, Andrew Benedictov, Peter Sakharovsky, and John Nikolsky, Priests (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr John Bystrov, Priest (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Basil Krymkin, Priest (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Uncovering of the relics (1752) of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov (1709)
 * Repose of Arseny (Chagovstsov), Archbishop of Winnipeg (1945)
 * Repose of Priest Dumitru Staniloae of Romania (1993)
 * Synaxis of the Saints of Uglich.
 * Synaxis of the Church of "Panagia Giatrissa" ("The Healer"), on Therasia in the Greek Cyclades (1950s)