September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 7.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
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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 Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky), Archbishop of Irkutsk (1925)
- 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.