RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL OF ST.JOHN THE BAPTIST

September

• Neomarytyr Bishop Macary (Gnevushev)

  22 August / 4 September

  In the summer of 1918, Bishop Macary (Gnevushev) of Vyazem was shot in Smolensk, together with 13 others arrested with him. They were driven...
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  New Hieromartyr Ephrem, Bishop of Selenga

  23 August / 5 September

  Bishop Ephrem (in the world, Epiphany Andreevitch Kuznetsov) was one of those zealous and devoted servants of the Russian Church who was...
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  Blessed Maria of Diveevo

  26 August / 8 September

  Blessed Maria (Maria Zakharovna Fedina) was born into a family of peasants in the Tambov District. Since childhood, she loved to be alone...

• Martyrs Adrian and Natalia

  26 August/8 September

  The spouses Adrian and Natalia lived in the city of Nicomedia in the Bythinian province of Asia Minor. Adrian was a pagan and a dignitary of...

• Martyr Mamas, of Caesarea in Cappadocia and his parents, Martyrs Theodotus and Rufina

  2/15 September

  Holy Martyr Mamas, son of the eminent Christians Martyrs Theodotus and Rufina, was born in Paphlagonia. Because they openly confessed their Faith,...

• Holy Prophet Zacharias and Righteous Elizabeth, parents of St. John the Forerunner

  5/18 September

  They descended from the stock of Aaron: Saint Zacharias, the son of Barachias, was a priest in the temple at Jerusalem, while Saint Elizabeth was the...
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  Commemoration of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Colossae (Chonae) (4th Century)

  6/19 September

  In Phrygia, not far from the city of Hierapolis, in a place called Kherotopa, there was a church dedicated to the Archangel Michael. Near the church...

• St. Makarius, archimandrite of Kanev

  7/20 September

  St.Macarius of Kanev was born in 1605 in the ancient city of Ovrucha in Volynia, to the pious Tokarev family, famous Orthodox zealots. His parents...

• St. Euphrosynus the Cook of Alexandria

  11/24 September

  St. Euphrosynus, a monk in one of the monasteries of Palestine, carried out the obedience of working as a cook in the kitchen. While laboring for...

• Great Martyr Ketevan, queen of Kakhetia, Georgia

  13/26 September

  Great-martyr Ketevan was of the royal house of Bagration, and was the great-granddaughter of King Constantine of Kartli (1469-1505). Having married...

• Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth

  September 15/28

  Saint Nicetas was a Goth warrior and lived on the eastern side of the Danube River within the boundaries of present-day Rumania. Bishop Theophilus,...
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  Venerable St. Kuksha of Odessa

  16/29 September

  Venerable St. Kuksha (in the world, Kosma Velitchko) was born on January 12, 1875 in the village of Arbuzinka Kherson region, Nikolaev Province....
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  Righteous St. Alexis of Moscow (Metchev)

  29 January /11 February (Synaxis of the New Martyrs),
  9/22 June, 20 August/2 September (Saints of Moscow)
  16/29 September (Translation of the Relics)