September 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

  Saints

• Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, and Asclepiodota, of Adrianopolis
• Holy Two Virgin-Martyrs, by the sword.
• Martyr Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea
• Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth and those with him
• Saint Joseph, Abbot of Alaverdi Monastery in Georgia
• Venerable Philotheos the Presbyter of Asia Minor, Wonderworker
• Venerable Sabinus, a bishop who became a monastic.

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Nicomedes, by tradition he was a priest martyred in Rome, perhaps under Domitian
• Saint Valerian, a companion of St Photinus of Lyons in France
• Saint Albinus, Bishop of Lyons
• Saint Mamilian of Palermo, Bishop of Palermo in Sicily
• Saint Aprus, Bishop of Toul
• Saint Leobinus, Abbot of Brou, then Bishop of Chartres
• Saint Hernin, a hermit in Brittany at a place called Loc-Harn after him
• Saint Merinus, abbot of Paisley Abbey
• Saint Aichardus, Abbot of St Benedict's at Quinçay near Poitiers, then Abbot of Jumièges
• Saint Ritbert, monk and abbot of a small monastery in Varennes in France
• Saint Ribert, Monk and Abbot of Saint-Valèry-sur-Somme in France
• Saints Emilas and Jeremiah, two young men, the former of whom was a deacon, imprisoned and beheaded in Cordoba in Spain under the Caliph Abderrahman

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Meletios, founder of the Monastery of Sergius.
• Venerable Nicetas, Bishop of Chytri, near Kythrea, in Cyprus.
• Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki, Archbishop of Thessaloniki
• Saint Nicetas, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh and founder of the Theophany Monastery in Kostroma
• Saints Bessarion I and Bessarion II, Metropolitans of Larissa.
• Saint Joseph the New of Partoёs, Metropolitan of Timișoara, Romania
• Saint Gerasimos the New, founder of the sacred monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia, near Makrinitsa
• New Martyr John of Crete, at New Ephesus

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Ilinsky, Priest
• Virgin-martyr Eudokia Tkachenko
• New Hieromartyrs Andrew Kovalev, Gregory Konokotin, Gregory Troitsky, and John Yakovlev, Priests
• Venerable New Hiero-confessor Ignatius, Archimandrite, of the Aleksievo-Akatov Monastery in Voronezh
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ignatenko, Priest
• New Hieromartyrs John Borozdin, Jacob Leonovich, Peter Petrikov, and Nicholas Skvortsov, Priests
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Tsvetkov, Deacon
• Martyrs Mary Rykov and Ludmila Petrov

  Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics of St. Acacius the Confessor, bishop of Melitene in Pisidia
• Icon of the Mother of God of Novonikita, carried by St Nicetas the Goth.
• Uncovering of the relics of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen

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