September 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Start of the Indiction, beginning the Liturgical Year.
• Protection of the Environment Day

  Saints

• Righteous Joshua, the son of Nun
• Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodos and Hermogenes at Nicomedia
• Holy 40 virgin-martyrs and their teacher the Hieromartyr Ammon the Deacon at Heraclea in Thrace :
• Martyr Aeithalas the Deacon of Persia
• Venerable Martha, the mother of St Simeon Stylites
• Venerable Simeon Stylites the Elder
• Venerable Evanthia.
• Saint Dionysius Exiguus, inventor of the Anno Domini era
• Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Priscus of Capua, first Bishop of Capua in Italy, where he was sent by the Apostle Peter, and martyred under Nero by tradition
• Hieromartyr Terentian, Bishop of Todi in Umbria in Italy, under Hadrian
• Virgin-martyr Vibiana, in Rome, whose relics are now venerated in Los Angeles, of which she is the main patron-saint
• Saint Sixtus of Reims, first Bishop of Rheims in France
• Hieromartyr Firminus of Amiens, third Bishop of Amiens in France
• The 12 Holy Brothers, Martyrs, who suffered in the south of Italy and were brought together and enshrined at Benevento in 760 :
• Saint Verena of Zurzach
• Saint Victorius, a disciple of St. Martin of Tours who became Bishop of Le Mans in France in c. 453
• Saint Constantius of Aquino, Bishop of Aquino in Italy
• Saint Regulus, exiled from North Africa by the Arian Vandals, he landed in Tuscany in Italy and was martyred under Totila
• Saint Lupus of Sens, a monk at Lérins who became Bishop of Sens in France in 609
• Saint Nivard of Rheims, Archbishop of Rheims in France
• Saint Giles of Nîmes, monastic founder along the Rhone
• Saint Lythan, a saint in Wales to whom two churches are dedicated.
• Saints Giles and Arcanus, founded a monastery that later grew into Borgo San Sepulcro in central Italy

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Meletius the Younger, of Thebes
• Venerable Nicholas of Courtaliatis in Crete, monk
• New-Martyr Angelis of Constantinople
• Venerable Anthony of Agyia.
• Saint Haido of Stanos

  New Martys and Confessors

• Virgin-martyrs Tatiana Gribkov and Natalia Kozlov

  Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Great Fire of Constantinople
• Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos of Miasena Monastery, in memory of the finding of her icon
• Celebration of the first miracle of the Icon of the Theotokos at Chernigov-Gethsemane
• Celebration of the "All-Blessed" or "Pamakarista" Icon of Our Lady of Kazan

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