Saints

• Saint
  Saint
  A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...
  
   Lucian
  Lucian
  Lucian of Samosata was a rhetorician and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature.His ethnicity is disputed and is attributed as Assyrian according to Frye and Parpola, and Syrian according to Joseph....
  
  , abbot
  Abbot
  The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...
  
   of Alexandrov
  Alexandrov
  Alexandrov or Aleksandrov is a town in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, north-east of Moscow. Population: Alexandrov Sloboda served as the capital of Russia for three months under Tsar Ivan the Terrible until he agreed to return his court and the relics of Moscow which he had taken with him...
  
  , Kostroma
  Kostroma
  Kostroma is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers...
  
   (1655)
• Saint Arsenius
  Arsenius
  Arsenius may refer to:* Arsenius * Arsenius the Great, Saint Arsenius the Deacon, sometimes known as Arsenius of Scetis and Turah or Arsenius the Roman* Saint Arsenius of Corfu, first bishop of Corfu, Arsenius may refer to:* Arsenius (name)* Arsenius the Great, Saint Arsenius the Deacon, sometimes...
  
  , abbot of Konevits
• Martyr
  Martyr
  A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
  
   Athanasius of Thessalonica (1774)
• Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
  n new martyr Alexander Jacobson (1930)
• Martyrs Rufus and Rufianus
• Martyrs Severus and Artemidorus
• Saint Sophronios of Iberia, bishop
  Bishop
  A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
  
  

Other Commemorations

• Feast of The Nativity
  Nativity of the Theotokos
  The Nativity of the Theotokos, celebrating the birth of Mary, is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox liturgical year. It is celebrated on September 8 on the liturgical calendar .According to the sacred tradition of the Orthodox Church,...
  
   of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos
  Theotokos
  Theotokos is the Greek title of Mary, the mother of Jesus used especially in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches. Its literal English translations include God-bearer and the one who gives birth to God. Less literal translations include Mother of God...
  
   and Ever-Virgin Mary
• Icons of the Theotokos: "Kursk-Root
  Our Lady of Kursk
  Our Lady of Kursk is an icon of Theotokos of the Sign, apparently painted in the thirteenth century and discovered in a forest near Kursk ca. 1300. It was preserved in the Black Hermitage of the Roots , an abbey founded on the spot of its discovery...
  
  ", Pochaev, Kholm
  Kholm
  Kholm is a town and the administrative center of Kholmsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, situated at the confluence of the Lovat and Kunya Rivers, north of Toropets, southwest of Staraya Russa, and south of Veliky Novgorod. Population:...
  
  , and others
• Repose of Saint Serapion
  Serapion
  -Physicians:*Serapion of Alexandria , Greek physician*Yahya ibn Sarafyun , also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac...
  
  , monk
  Monk
  A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...
  
  , of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery in Pskov
  Pskov
  Pskov is an ancient city and the administrative center of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located in the northwest of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River. Population: -Early history:...
  
  , wonderworker (1481)
• Repose of Elder Daniel of Katounakia on Mount Athos
  Mount Athos
  Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...
  
   (1929)