Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

September 09

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

1. Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna
   LITURGY: GAL 4:22-31 LUKE 8:16-21
   Wine and Oil allowed
2. Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos.
3. Martyr Severian of Sebaste.
4. St. Joseph, abbot of Volokolamsk (or Volotsk).
5. Martyr Chariton.
6. Martyr Straton.
7. St. Theophanes the confessor and faster of Mt. Diabenos.
8. Blessed Nicetas the Hidden of Constantinople.
9. St. Joachim, abbot of Opochka Monastery (Pskov).
10. Opening of the Relics of St. Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov.
11. Commemoration of the Third Ecumenical Council.
12. Repose of Elder Joachim of St. Anne's Skete, Mt. Athos.