September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 24

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar

Saints

• Martyrs Andrew, John, Peter, and Antoninus of Syracuse, martyred in Africa (9th century)
• Virgin-martyr Irais (Saint Rais) of Alexandria (310)
• Saints Xanthippa and Polyxena, disciples of the Apostles, who died in Spain (109)
• Martyr Nicholas Pantopolis at Constantinople (1672)
• Martyr John of Ioannina, Epirus (1814)
• New martyr Arsenius, archimandrite (1937)
• Saint Adamnan, biographer of Saint Columba (704)

Other Commemorations

• The Conception of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
• 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)

References

• Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints
• Pravoslavie Orthodox Calendar