September 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

September 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 26.

Feasts

 * The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.

Saints

 * Martyrs Rufus and Rufianus, by the sword.
 * Martyr Severus, by the sword.
 * Martyr Artemidorus, by the sword.
 * Martyrs Eusebius, Nestablus, Zeno, and Nestor, by a mob (c. 362)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Anastasius II, Pope of Rome (498) (see also: November 19)
 * Saint Kingsmark (Kinemark, Cynfarch), disciple of St. Dyfrig (5th century)
 * Saint Æthelburh of Kent (Ethelburga), daughter of King Ethelbert of Kent, who married King Edwin of Northumbria, and founded the convent of Lyminge in Kent as abbess (c. 647)
 * Saint Disibod (Disibode, Disen), founder of Disibodenberg Abbey in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (c. 700)
 * Saint Sergius, Pope of Rome (701)
 * Saint Corbinian, a hermit who was consecrated a Bishop and was sent as a missionary to Bavaria (c. 730)
 * Saint Ine of Wessex, King of Wessex, and his wife Queen Ethelburga (c. 740)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Serapion, monk of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery, Pskov (1481)  (see also: September 7)
 * Saint Lucian, Abbot, of Alexandrov (1654)
 * New Martyr Athanasius of Thessaloniki (1774)
 * Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Achtaleia in Iberia (Georgia) (1803)
 * Saints Ioane (Maisuradze), Archimandrite (1957), and Giorgi-Ioane (Mkheidze), Schema-Archimandrite (1960), Confessors, of Georgia.

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Martyr Alexander Jacobson, at Solovki (1930)
 * New Martyr Demetrius, Priest (1937)

Other commemorations

 * Translation of the relics of St. Grimbald, Abbot of Winchester Abbey.
 * Repose of Archbishop Dionysius of Ufa (1896)
 * Repose of Elder Daniel of Katounakia, Mount Athos (1929)
 * Repose of Priest Dimitrie Bejan of Romania (1995)

Icons

 * Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos:


 * Kholmsk (1st century)
 * "Kursk Root" (1295)
 * Syamsk (1524)
 * Pochaev (1559)
 * Glinsk (16th century)
 * Lukianov (16th century)
 * Isaakov (1659)
 * Domnitsk (1696)
 * Lesna (Lesninsk) (1696)
 * "Kathariotissa", on Ithaca (c. 1696)
 * Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (Kiev).
 * Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos, at several locations in Greece.