September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

September 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 24

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.

## 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)

## Icon gallery

* Icon of the Conception of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.
* Annunciation to Zachariah.
* Saints Xanthippe and Polyxena, of Spain.
* St. Xanthippe of Spain.
* Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais, Raissa) of Alexandria.
* St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska and Siberia.
