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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 rule ...

- Sep. 2 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on ''September 14'' by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For September 1st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''

August 19 Events Pre-1600 * 295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. *43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later kno ...

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Feasts

* ''Start of the

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, beginning the

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''. * ''Protection of the Environment Day'' (''Eastern Orthodox

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'') (1989)George Spyros.
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'' TreeHugger (Discovery Communications, LLC). September 1, 2007.

Saints

* Righteous

Joshua Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' Literal translation, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Book of Exodus, Exodus and ...

, the son of

Nun A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.''The Oxford English Dictionary'', vol. X, page 5 ...

(c. 16th century BC) * Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodos and Hermogenes at

Nicomedia Nicomedia (; , ''Nikomedeia''; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire (chosen by the emperor Diocletian who rul ...

(309) * Holy 40

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-martyrs and their teacher the Hieromartyr Ammon the Deacon at Heraclea in

Thrace Thrace (, ; ; ; ) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe roughly corresponding to the province of Thrace in the Roman Empire. Bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Black Se ...

(321-323): :* Laurencia the deaconess; Celsina; Theoclia; Theoctista; Dorothy; Eutychia; Thecla; Aristaineta; Philadelphia; Mary; Veronica; Euthymia; Lamprotatia; Euphymia; Theodora; Theodota; Teteia; Aquilina; Theodulia; Aplodora; Lampadia; Procopia; Paula; Junilla; Ampliana; Percissa; Polynicia; Maura; Gregoria; Kyriake; Bassa; Callinica; Barbara; Cyriena; Agathonica; Justa; Irene; Timothea; Tatiana; and Anna.
September 1
'' The Year of Our Salvation - A Website of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, Massachusetts. Retrieved: 9 March 2018. * Martyr Aeithalas the Deacon of

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

(380) * Venerable Martha, the mother of St Simeon Stylites (428) * ''Venerable

Simeon Stylites Simeon Stylites or Symeon the Stylite ', Koine Greek ', ' (Greek language, Greek: Συμεών ό Στυλίτης; ; 2 September 459) was a Syrian Asceticism#Christianity, Christian ascetic, who achieved notability by living 36 years on a s ...

the Elder'' (459) * Venerable Evanthia. * Saint

Dionysius Exiguus Dionysius Exiguus (Latin for "Dionysius the Humble"; Greek: Διονύσιος; – ) was a 6th-century Eastern Roman monk born in Scythia Minor. He was a member of a community of Scythian monks concentrated in Tomis (present-day Constanț ...

, inventor of the

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(AD) era (c. 544) * Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos (c. 845)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Hieromartyr Priscus of Capua, first Bishop of Capua in Italy, where he was sent by the

Apostle Peter An apostle (), in its literal sense, is an emissary. The word is derived from Ancient Greek ἀπόστολος (''apóstolos''), literally "one who is sent off", itself derived from the verb ἀποστέλλειν (''apostéllein''), "to se ...

, and martyred under Nero by tradition (c. 66)September 1
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Hieromartyr Terentian, Bishop of Todi in Umbria in Italy, under Hadrian (118) * Virgin-martyr Vibiana, in Rome, whose relics are now venerated in Los Angeles, of which she is the main patron-saint (3rd century) * Saint Sixtus of Reims, first Bishop of Rheims in France (c. 300) * Hieromartyr Firminus of Amiens, third Bishop of Amiens in France (c. 303) * The 12 Holy Brothers, Martyrs, who suffered in the south of Italy and were brought together and enshrined at Benevento in 760 (c. 303): :* Donatus, Felix, Arontius, Honoratus, Fortunatus, Sabinian, Septimius, Januarius, another Felix, Vitalis, Sator, and Repositus. * Saint Verena of Zurzach (Switzerland) (c. 350)September 1/14
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Saint Victorius (''Victurius''), a disciple of St.

Martin of Tours Martin of Tours (; 316/3368 November 397) was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including France's Third French Republic, Third Republic. A native of Pannonia (present-day Hung ...

who became Bishop of Le Mans in France in c. 453 (c. 490) * Saint Constantius of Aquino, Bishop of Aquino in Italy (c. 520) * Saint Regulus (''San Regolo''), exiled from North Africa by the Arian Vandals, he landed in Tuscany in Italy and was martyred under

Totila Totila, original name Baduila (died 1 July 552), was the penultimate King of the Ostrogoths, reigning from 541 to 552 AD. A skilled military and political leader, Totila reversed the tide of the Gothic War (535–554), Gothic War, recovering b ...

(545) * Saint Lupus of Sens, a monk at Lérins who became Bishop of Sens in France in 609 (623) * Saint Nivard of Rheims, Archbishop of Rheims in France (673) * Saint Giles of Nîmes (''Aegidius''), monastic founder along the Rhone (c. 712) * Saint Lythan (''Llythaothaw''), a saint in Wales to whom two churches are dedicated. * Saints Giles (''Aegidius'') and Arcanus, founded a monastery that later grew into Borgo San Sepulcro in central Italy (1050)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Meletius the Younger, of Thebes (1105) * Venerable Nicholas of Courtaliatis in Crete, monk (1670) * New-Martyr Angelis of Constantinople (1680) * Venerable Anthony of Agyia. * Saint Haido of Stanos (1820-1821)

New Martys and Confessors

* Virgin-martyrs Tatiana Gribkov and Natalia Kozlov (1937)

Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the Great Fire of Constantinople (c. 470) * Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos of Miasena Monastery, in memory of the finding of her icon (864) * Celebration of the first

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of the Icon of the

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

(Eletskaya) at Chernigov-Gethsemane (''Chernihiv-Hefsemanska'') (1869) * Celebration of the "All-Blessed" or " Pamakarista" Icon (11th century) of Our Lady of Kazan (1905)
Icon of the Mother of God, the "All Blessed"
'. OCA - Feasts and Saints.

Icon gallery

File:Joshua orthodox.jpg, Icon of Jesus of Navi (Joshua). File:Byzantine fresca from St-Lucas.jpg, Righteous

, the son of Nun. Fresco from

Hosios Loukas Hosios Loukas () is a historic walled monastery situated near the town of Distomo, in Boeotia, Greece. Founded in the mid-10th century, the monastery is one of the most important monuments of Middle Byzantine architecture and art, and has been l ...

monastery in Boeotia, Greece. File:MHS Szymon Slupnik XVI w Kostarowce p.jpg, St.

. Second half of the 16th century, Kostarowce, Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland. File:Saint Vibiana.jpg,

Saint Vibiana Saint Vibiana is a third-century Virgin (title)#Virgin martyrs, virgin martyr of the Roman Catholic Church. She is the Patron saint, patroness of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Her liturgical feast day ...

, 19th century File:Kazan moscow.jpg, Icon of Our Lady of Kazan.

Notes

References

Sources

September 1/14
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
September 14 / September 1
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
September 1
OCA - The Lives of the Saints.

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. 266–267. * Rev. Richard Stanton.
A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries
'' London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p. 433. ; Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
1 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
1 Σεπτεμβρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). ; Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *
1 сентября по старому стилю / 14 сентября по новому стилю
Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на год. {{DEFAULTSORT:September 1 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) September in the Eastern Orthodox calendar