September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 21

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For September 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 7.

## Saints

* Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas, his wife Martyr Theopistes, and their sons Martyrs Agapius and Theopistus, of Rome (118)
* Martyrs Artemidorus and Thallos, by the sword.
* Martyr John the Confessor, of Egypt, beheaded in Palestine, and with him 40 martyrs (295 or 310)
* Saints Theodore and Euprepius, and two men named Anastasius (7th century), confessors and disciples of Saint Maximos the Confessor.
* Hieromartyrs Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus and Andrew the Presbyter, Confessors of the Holy Icons, under Leo III the Isaurian (8th century) (see also: September 21)
* Venerable John the Godbearer, of Crete, monk (1031)
* Venerable Meletius of Cyprus, Bishop. (see also: September 21)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Candida, a virgin-martyr in Carthage in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus (c. 300)
* Saint Glycerius, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (438)
* Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536) (see also: April 17 - East)
* Saint Vincent Madelgarius, Benedictine monk (677)
* Saint Eusebia of Saint-Cyr, Benedictine Abbess of a convent in Marseilles in France, martyred with some forty nuns by the Saracens at Saint-Cyr (c. 731)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Eustathius of Thessalonica, Archbishop of Thessalonica (1197)
* Holy Martyrs Blessed Prince Michael of Chernigov, and his counsellor Theodore of Chernigov, Wonderworkers (1245)
* Saint Oleg Romanovich, Prince of Bryansk (1285)
* Right-believing Prince John of Putyvl, Ukraine (14th century)
* New Monk-martyr Hilarion the Cretan, of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1804)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus Smelnitsky and Alexander Tetiuyev, Priests (1937)

## Other commemorations

* Synaxis of the icon of Panagia Voulkaniotissa, in Messinia (1755)
* Synaxis of the Saints of Bryansk.

## Icon gallery

* St. Eustathios Placidas.
* Martyrdom of St. Eustathios Placidas and family.
* Eustathios of Thessaloniki, Archbishop (c.1175 - c.1195/6).
* Holy Martyr Blessed Prince Michael of Chernigov.
* New Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky).
