September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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For September 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 8.
Feasts
- Apodosis of the Exaltation of the Cross.
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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)