September 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

September 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 26

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 8 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 12.

Saints

 * Monk-martyr Paphnutius and 546 companions, in Egypt (c. 303)  (see also: April 19 )
 * Martyrs Paul and Tatta and their children Sabinian, Maximos, Rufus, and Eugene, of Damascus.
 * Venerable Euphrosyne of Alexandria, nun,  and her father Venerable Paphnutius, monk (5th century)
 * Venerable Theophilos the Confessor, Archbishop of Ephesus.
 * Saint Arsen the Great, Catholicos of Georgia (887)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saints Aurelia and Neomisia, at Anagni, peacefully.
 * Saint Herculanus, a soldier martyred in Rome.
 * Saint Firminus of Amiens, First Bishop of Amiens (4th century)
 * Saint Caian of Tregaian (5th century)
 * Saint Principius, the elder brother of St Remigius of Rheims, he became Bishop of Soissons in France (c. 505)
 * Saint Solemnis (Soleine, Solen), Bishop of Chartres (511)
 * Saint Lupus of Lyons, Archbishop of Lyons (542)
 * Saint Cadoc, Abbot, of Llancarfan (580)  (see also: January 24 )
 * Saint Anacharius (Aunacharius, Aunachaire, Aunaire), Bishop of Auxerre and Confessor (604)
 * Saint Finbarr of Cork (Barrocus, Barry), first Bishop of Cork (c. 633)
 * Saint Ermenfridus, a monk at Luxeuil Abbey in France, who later founded the monastery of Cusance (c. 670)
 * Saint Mewrog, a saint in Wales.
 * Saint Fymbert, a bishop in the west of Scotland (7th century)
 * Saint Ceolfrith (Ceolfrid, Geoffrey), Abbot, of Wearmouth-Jarrow Monastery (716)
 * Saint Egelred, a monk at Crowland Abbey in England, martyred with his abbot and many others by the heathen Danes (c. 869)
 * Saint Egelred, a monk at Crowland Abbey in England, martyred with his abbot and many others by the heathen Danes (c. 869)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Byzantinos.
 * Venerable Euphrosyne of Suzdal, nun (1250)
 * Repose of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh, Abbot of Radonezh and Wonderworker of All Russia (1392)
 * Saint Pimen (Cherny), archbishop of Novgorod (1571)
 * Saint Dosithea the Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (1776)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Saint Nicholas Rozov the Confessor, Priest (1941)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the earthquake in Constantinople in 447, when a boy was lifted up to heaven and heard the "Trisagion".
 * First translation of the relics (1595) of St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
 * Repose of philosopher Alexei Stepanovich Khomiakov, cofounder of the Slavophile movement (1860)


 * Uncovering of the relics of hieromartyrs Alexander Smirnov and Theodore Remizov, Presbyters (1985)