September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 10.
Feasts
- The Conception of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.
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Saints
- Saints Xanthippe and Polyxena, of Spain, disciples of the Apostles (109)
- Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais, Raissa) of Alexandria (308)
- Martyrs Andrew and John, and his sons Peter and Antoninus, of Syracuse, martyred in Africa (9th century)
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome (c. 79) (In the East: January 4 and November 5 )
- Saint Paternus (Pair), Bishop of Avranches (c. 563)
- Saint Constantius, sacristan of the ancient church of St Stephen in Ancona in Italy (6th century)
- Saint Adomnán, Abbot of Iona, biographer of Saint Columba (704)
- Saint Cissa of Crowland, a disciple of St Guthlac at Crowland in England (early 8th century)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- New Martyr Nicholas the Grocer ("O Pantopolis"), at Constantinople (1672)
- New Martyr John of Konitsa, Epirus, by beheading (1814)
- New Hieromartyr Gregory (Kalamaras), Metropolitan of Argos and Nauplion, Ethnomartyr (1821)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John Pankratovich, Priest (1937)
- New Hieromartyr Arsenius, Archimandrite (1937)
Other commemorations
- Icon of the Mother of God of Slovenka (Solvenskaya) (1635)
- Repose of Abbess Eupraxia of Old Ladoga Convent (1823)
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Jerome of Solovki (1847)
- Glorification (1977) of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879)
- Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Theotokos "Hawaiian" (2007)
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