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Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rul ...

- Sep. 3 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on ''September 15'' by Orthodox Churches on the

Old Calendar Old Calendarists (Greek language, Greek: ''palaioimerologitai'' or ''palaioimerologites''), also known as Old Feasters (''palaioeortologitai''), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; ), are traditionalist groups of Easte ...

. For September 2nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''

August 20 Events Pre-1600 *AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is mysteriously executed by his guards while in exile. * 636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arabs, Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take c ...

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Saints

* Righteous

Eleazar Eleazar (; ) or Elʽazar was a priest in the Hebrew Bible, the second High Priest, succeeding his father Aaron after he died. He was a nephew of Moses. Biblical narrative Eleazar played a number of roles during the course of the Exodus, from c ...

, son of Righteous

Aaron According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of ...

, and Righteous Phineas (c. 1400 B.C.)September 2/September 15
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής.
2 Σεπτεμβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). * ''Martyrs Mamas of

Caesarea in Cappadocia Kayseri (; el, Καισάρεια) is a large industrialised city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri province. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is composed of five districts: the two central districts of Kocasinan ...

, and his parents, Theodotus and Rufina'' (3rd century) * 3,628 Martyrs at Nicomedia (303-305)September 15 / September 2
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на год. (''see also:

September 4 Events Pre-1600 * 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire. * 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne ove ...

'') * Martyr

Diomedes Diomedes (Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter, James Hartman and Jane Setter, eds. ''Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary''. 17th edition. Cambridge UP, 2006.) or Diomede (; grc-gre, Διομήδης, Diomēdēs, "god-like cunning" or "advised by ...

, by the sword. * Martyr Julian, beaten to death. * Martyr Philip, by the sword. * Martyr Eutychianos, roasted alive on a gridiron. * Martyr Hesychius, by hanging. * Martyr Leonides, by fire. * Martyr Eutychios, by crucifixion. * Martyr Philadelphos, by tying a heavy stone around his neck. * Martyr Melanippos, by fire. * Martyr Parthagape, by drowning. * Martyrs of Aeithalas and Ammon of

Adrianople Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...

, Thrace, by severe whipping. * ''Saint

John the Faster John IV (died September 2, 595), also known as John Nesteutes (, Ioannes the Faster), was the 33rd bishop or Patriarch of Constantinople (April 11, 582 – 595). He was the first to assume the title '' Ecumenical Patriarch''. He is regarded as ...

Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ...

'' (595) * Saint Kosmas the Hermit and Confessor, of Crete (658)
02/09/
'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint

Antoninus of Pamiers Saint Antoninus of Pamiers (french: Saint Antonin, oc, Sant Antoní, and es, San Antolín) was an early Christian missionary and martyr, called the "Apostle of the Rouergue". His life is dated to the first, second, fourth, and fifth century by va ...

, an early martyr at

Pamiers Pamiers (; oc, Pàmias ) is a commune and largest city in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It is the most populous commune in the Ariège department, although it ...

in France.September 2
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint Maxima, a Roman slave who was scourged to death in Rome, condemned to death together with St Ansanus (304) * Saint

Justus of Lyon Justus of Lyon ( la, Iustus, lit="one who helps") was the 13th Bishop of Lyon. He succeeded Verissimus in the mid-4th century. He is venerated as a saint by both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, with a feast day on 2 September. Around 350, Ju ...

Bishop of Lyon The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops o ...

(390) * Saint Valentine, fourth

Bishop of Strasbourg {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 These persons were bishop, archbishop or prince-bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Strasbourg (including historically Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg): Bishops and prince-bishops *Amandus *Justinus vo ...

in France (4th century) * Saint

Castor of Apt Saint Castor of Apt (died ca. 420) was a bishop of Apt, in Gaul. He was born in Nîmes and may have been the brother of Saint Leontius of Fréjus. Castor was a lawyer and married to a wealthy widow. He lived in Marseilles. His wife, however ...

Bishop of Apt The former French Catholic diocese of Apt, in southeast France, existed from the fourth century until the French Revolution. By the Concordat of 1801, it was suppressed, and its territory was divided between the diocese of Digne and the diocese o ...

(c. 420) * Saint Elpidius, Bishop of Lyon, Confessor (422) * Saint

Nonnosus Saint Nonnosus ( 500 – 560 AD), also ''Nonosius'', was a prior at the San Silvestre monastery on Monte Soratte north of Rome and later a monk at Suppentonia, near Civita Castellana. He was a contemporary of Saint Benedict of Nursia. Alban B ...

, a monk at the monastery of Mt Soracte in Italy; his wonderful deeds were recorded by St Gregory the Great (c. 575) * Saint

Hieu Hieu was a 7th-century Irish abbess who worked in Northumbria. She was foundress of abbeys at Hartlepool and Healaugh in Yorkshire England. Hieu was also the first of the saintly recluses of Northumbria, and the first known woman to rule a doubl ...

, Abbess of

Tadcaster Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, east of the Great North Road, north-east of Leeds, and south-west of York. Its historical importance from Roman times onward was largely as the ...

, England (c. 657) * Saint

Agricola of Avignon Saint Agricola (Agricol, Agricolus) of Avignon (c. 630–c. 700) was a bishop of Avignon. According to tradition, Agricola ("farmer") was the son of Saint Magnus of Avignon, Saint Magnus, also a bishop of the city. Life At the age of sixteen, ...

(''Agricolus''),

Bishop of Avignon The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon ( Latin: ''Archidioecesis Avenionensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse d'Avignon'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese exercises jurisdiction over the t ...

(c. 700) * Saint Lolanus, a bishop in Scotland (c. 1034)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* ''Saints

Anthony Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonia (gens), Antonii'', a ''gens'' (Roman naming conventions, Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were ...

(1073) and

Theodosius Theodosius ( Latinized from the Greek "Θεοδόσιος", Theodosios, "given by god") is a given name. It may take the form Teodósio, Teodosie, Teodosije etc. Theodosia is a feminine version of the name. Emperors of ancient Rome and Byzantium ...

(1074), founders of the

Kiev Monastery of the Caves Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra or Kyivo-Pechers’ka Lavra ( uk, Києво-Печерська лавра, translit=Kyievo-Pecherska lavra, russian: Киево-Печерская лавра), also known as the Kyiv Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Ea ...

and

monasticism Monasticism (from Ancient Greek , , from , , 'alone'), also referred to as monachism, or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. Monastic life plays an important role ...

in Rus'.''

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Barsanuphius (Lebedev), Bishop of Kyrillov (1918)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 65. * New Hieromartyr John Ivanov, Priest (1918) * New Martyr Seraphima (Sulimova), Abbess of the Therapontov Convent (1918) * New Martyrs Anatoly Barashkov, Nicholas Burlakov, Michael Trubnikov, and Philip Marishev, at the St. Cyril of White Lake Monastery (1918) * New Hieromartyr Damascene (Tsedrik), Bishop of Starodub (1937) * New Hieromartyrs Ephemius Goryachev, John Melnichenko, John Smolichev, Vladimir Morinsky, Victor Basov, Basil Zelensky, Theodotus Shatokhin, Peter Novoselsky, Stephen Yaroshevich, Priests (1937) * New Hieromartyr Herman (Ryashentsev), Bishop of Vyaznikov (1937) * New Hieromartyr Stephen Ermolin, Priest (1937) * Martyr Paul Elkyn (1937) * Virgin-martyr Xenia (1937)

Other commemorations

* "Kaluga" Icon of the Most Holy

Theotokos ''Theotokos'' (Greek: ) is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are ''Dei Genitrix'' or ''Deipara'' (approximately "parent (fem.) of God"). Familiar English translations are " ...

(1771)
Icon of the Mother of God of Kaluga
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints. * Translation of the relics (1796) of Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of Totma (1568) *

Synaxis {{For, the moth genus, Synaxis (moth) A synaxis ( el, σύναξις "gathering"; Slavonic: собор, ''sobor'') is a liturgical assembly in Eastern Christianity (the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the ...

of the Saints of

Saratov Saratov (, ; rus, Сара́тов, a=Ru-Saratov.ogg, p=sɐˈratəf) is the largest city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River upstream (north) of Volgograd. Saratov had a population of 901,36 ...

. * Repose of Archbishop Vladimir (Petrov) of Kazan (1897)

Icon gallery

File:Mamant.jpg, Martyr Mamas of

. File:Mammes of Caesarea (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Martyr Mamas of

. File:Patriarch John IV of Constantinople (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Saint

. File:Svenskaya.jpg, Sts.

Anthony and Theodosius Anthony and Theodosius were sainted founders of the Russian and Ukrainian monasticism. They established the Kiev Pechersk Monastery in the mid-11th century. See Saint Anthony of Kiev and Theodosius of Kiev for details. In the Eastern Orthodox Chu ...

with the Theotokos Panachrantos. File:Епископ Кирилловский Варсонофий (Лебедев).jpg, New Hieromartyr Barsanuphius (Lebedev), Bishop of Kyrillov. File:Bishop Damaskin Tsedrik.jpg, New Hieromartyr Damascene (Tsedrik), Bishop of Starodub. File:Герман (Ряшенцев).jpg, New Hieromartyr Herman (Ryashentsev), Bishop of Vyaznikov. File:Kaluzhskaya icon 4.jpg, "Kaluga" Icon of the Most Holy

. File:Св. Феодосий Тотемский.jpg, Venerable Theodosius, Abbot of Totma File:Владимир (Петров).jpg, Archbishop Vladimir (Petrov) of Kazan.

Notes

References

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September 15 / September 2
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
September 2
OCA - The Lives of the Saints. * The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). ''St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004.'' St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 65. *

'' Orthodoxy in China.

Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * '' The Roman Martyrology.'' Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 267–279. * Rev. Richard Stanton.
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'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 434. ; Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
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ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
2 Σεπτεμβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). *
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'' Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής. ; Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *
2 сентября по старому стилю / 15 сентября по новому стилю
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на год. {{DEFAULTSORT:September 2 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) September in the Eastern Orthodox calendar