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September 15, 2017

Saints and Feasts of September 15


On the fifteenth, Niketas was cast into the furnace.

Holy Great Martyr Niketas the Goth 
and Those With Him
 
 
 
 
Venerable Philotheos the Presbyter and Wonderworker

Synaxarion of Saint Philotheos the Presbyter and Wonderworker


Holy Martyr Porphyrios the Mime

Saint Porphyrios the Mime


Finding of the Relics of Saint Akakios 
the Bishop of Meletine

Finding of the Relics of Saint Akakios the Confessor and Bishop of Meletine


Holy Martyr Maximos

Holy Martyr Maximos


Holy Two Maidens

Holy Two Maidens


Finding of the Relics of the Holy Protomartyr Stephen 
 
 
 
 
Saint Bessarion I the Sanctified, Archbishop  of Larissa
Saint Bessarion II, Archbishop of Larissa

Saint Bessarion II, Metropolitan of Larissa (+ 1540)

The Monastery of Saint Bessarion (Dousikou) at Trikala

Commemoration of the Deliverance of the Island of Lefkada from the Plague of 1743


Saint Symeon, Archbishop of Thessaloniki

Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki Resource Page


Venerable Joseph of Alaverdi

Saint Joseph of Alaverdi, One of the Thirteen Holy Syrian Fathers (+ 570)


Saint Joseph the New, Metropolitan of Timisoara
 
 
Venerable Gerasimos the New, 
Founder of the Sacred Monastery of the 
Holy Trinity in Sourvia

Saint Gerasimos the New, Founder of the Sacred Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia (+ 1740)

The Mid-Pentecost Celebration of St. Gerasimos the New of Sourvia


Holy New Hieromartyr Niketas at Serres

Holy New Hieromartyr Niketas of Serres (+ 1808)


Holy New Martyr John of Crete, 
who was martyred at New Ephesus

Holy New Martyr John of Sphakia in Crete (+ 1811)


Synaxis of the Novonikita Icon of the Mother of God


Novonikita Icon of the Mother of God

Prologue in Sermons: September 15 

 

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