5th of October

St. Gregory of Khandzta

The 5th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyr CHARITINA; the Holy Martyr MAMELTA, who was stoned to death; our Holy Father EUDOCIMUS of the Monastery of VATOPEDI on Mount Athos; our Holy Father SABAS of VATOPEDI; our Holy Mother METHODIA, who practiced ascesis in the island of KIMOLOS; the Venerable Fathers: DAMIAN the Healer, JEREMIAH and MATTHEW of the Lavra of the KIEV CAVES; our Venerable Father GREGORY of KHANDZTA in Georgia

4th of October

St. Hierotheos of Athens

The 4th of the month, Memory of Saint HIEROTHEUS, Bishop of ATHENS; Saint DOMNINA and her daughters, BERENICE and PROSDOKE; the Holy Martyr ADAUCTUS and his daughter CALLISTHENE; our Holy Father AMMON the EGYPTIAN, who died in peace; the Holy Hieromartyr PETER of CAPITOLIA; Saint STEPHEN STILIANOVICH, Prince of SERBIA, and of his wife Saint ELIZABETH; Translation of the Relics of Saint GURIAS, Bishop of KAZAN, and of Saint BARSANUPHIUS, Bishop of TVER, Enlighteners of KAZAN

3rd of October

St. Dyonisius the Areopagite

The 3rd of the month, Memory of the Holy Hieromartyr DIONYSIUS the AREOPAGITE; the Holy Hieromartyr DIONYSIUS, Bishop of ALEXANDRIA, and of his Disciples: FAUSTUS, GAIUS, EUSEBIUS, and CHAIREMON, the Deacons; our Holy Father JOHN the CHOZEBITE, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, who died in peace

2nd of October

St. Leger of Autun

The 2nd of the month, Memory of the Holy Hieromartyr CYPRIAN and of the Virgin Martyr JUSTINA; the Holy Great Martyr THEODORE GAVRA; the Holy Martyrs DAVID and CONSTANTINE, Princes of Georgia; our Holy Father LEGER, Bishop of AUTUN; Saint THEODORE Ushakov, Admiral of the Russian fleet

1st of October

St. Romanos the Melodist

The 1st of the month, Memory of the Holy Apostle ANANIAS; our Holy Father ROMANUS the MELODIST; the Holy Monks and Martyrs MICHAEL, Abbot of the Monastery of ZOBEA, and his thirty-six Companions; the Holy Martyr DOMNINUS, who died through having his bones crushed; the Holy Monk and Chanter JOHN KOUKOUZELIS, who led the ascetic life at the Great Lavra on the Holy Mountain of Athos and died in peace; Saint REMIGIUS, Bishop of RHEIMS and Apostle of the Franks; our Holy Father BAVO of GHENT

30th of September

The 30th of the month, Memory of the Holy Hieromartyr GREGORY the ENLIGHTENER, Catholicos of GREATER ARMENIA; the Venerable GREGORY of PELSHMA; our Father among the Saints MICHAEL, Metropolitan of KIEV; Saint ARSENIUS, Patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE

14th century Byzantine mosaic of Gregory at the Pammakaristos Church in Constantinople

29th of September

The 29th of the month, Memory of our Holy Father CYRIACUS the Anchorite; the Holy Martyrs DADA and KASDIOS and of the Holy Martyrs GUBARLAHAS, and his sister KAZOY, children of the King of Persia; the Holy FATHERS of the Monastery of the STROPHADES islands, massacred by the Turks; our Holy Father ONOUPHRIUS GARAGELI

St. Cyriacus the Anchorite

27th of September

The 27th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyr CALLISTRATUS and of his FORTY-NINE Companions; our Venerable Father SABBATIUS, Founder of the Monastery of SOLOVKI; the Holy Hieromartyr ANTHIMUS the IBERIAN, Metropolitan of HUNGRO-WALLACHIA; Saint Sigbert, King of the EAST ANGLES; Holy Hieromartyr PETER (Polyanski), Metropolitan of KRUTITSKY and KOLOMNA, Locum Tenens of the Patriarch of Moscow, who was martyred in 1937; RACHEL (Korotkova), Nun of the Great Habit of BORODINO

St. Sigbert of the East Angles

26th of September

The 26th of the month, Memory of the Holy and Glorious Apostle and Evangelist JOHN the THEOLOGIAN, the virgin Disciple and beloved Friend who leant on the Savior's breast; the Righteous GIDEON of the tribe of Manasseh, who judged Israel; our Holy God-bearing Father NILUS of CALABRIA; the Venerable EPHRAIM, Abbot of PEREKOP, Wonderworker of NOVGOROD

St. John the Evangelist

25th of September

The 25th of the month, Memory of our Holy Mother EUPHROSYNE, daughter of Paphnutius the Egyptian; the Holy Monk and Martyr PAPHNUTIUS the ANCHORITE, who was crucified AD 303, and of his 546 Companions; Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople AD 447, and of the Miracle of the TRISAGION; our Holy God-bearing Father SERGIUS of RADONEZH, Wonderworker and Protector of Russia; Saint EUPHROSYNE of SUZDAL, the Venerable DOSITHEA, Recluse of the KIEV CAVES; the Memory of Saint ARSENIUS the GREAT, Catholicos of Georgia

Sergius of Radonezh, 17th century

24th of September

The 24th of the month, Memory of the Holy Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles THECLA; our Holy Father COPRIUS; the Venerable ABRAMIUS of MIROZH; our Venerable Father NICANDER of PSKOV; our Venerable Father SILOUAN the ATHONITE; our Venerable Father GABRIEL of the SEDMYOZERNAYA Hermitage, Archimandrite of the Great Habit; the Holy Hieromartyr CARPUS ELB of Estonia

St. Thecla the Protomartyr

23rd of September

The 23rd of the month, CONCEPTION of the Holy and Illustrious Prophet and Forerunner JOHN the BAPTIST; Memory of the Holy Martyr ANDREW, who died run through by a spear; of the Holy Martyr JOHN, who was slain by the sword; and of the Holy Martyrs PETER and ANTONINUS, who died having their members cut off

Conception of the Forerunner

22nd of September

The 22nd of the month, Memory of the Hieromartyr PHOCAS the Wonderworker; Saint PHOCAS the GARDENER who was slain by the sword; the Venerable COSMAS, who led the ascetic life in the Monastery of ZOGRAPHOU on the Holy Mountain of Athos; the TWENTY-SIX MONKS and MARTYRS of ZOGRAPHOU, burnt alive in the tower of their monastery; our Holy Father SOPHRONIUS, Bishop of VRATSA in Bulgaria

St. Phocas the Wonderworker

20th of September

The 20th of the Month, Memory of the Holy Great Martyr EUSTATHIUS, of his wife THEOPISTA and of their children AGAPIUS and THEOPISTUS; the Holy Confessors of the Holy Icons and Martyrs HYPATIUS the bishop, and ANDREW the priest; the Holy Confessor and Martyr MICHAEL, Prince of CHERNIGOV, NOVGOROD and KIEV and of his Boyar THEODORE

St. Eustathius the Great Martyr

19th of September

The 19th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyrs TROPHIMUS, SABBATIUS and DORYMEDON; the Holy Prince THEODORE of YAROSLAVL, and of his sons DAVID and CONSTANTINE; Saint THEODORE, Archbishop of CANTERBURY; Venerable Father ALEXIS, founder of the Monastery of SAINT ZOSIMAS; the Holy Hieromartyr, the Archpriest CONSTANTINE GOLUBEV, and of his two companions

St. Constantine Golubev

16th of September

The 16th of the month, Memory of the Holy Great Martyr EUPHEMIA of CHALCEDON; the Holy Martyr LUDMILLA, Princess of the Czechs; our Holy Father Saint CYPRIAN, Metropolitan of KIEV and of All Russia; our Holy Father PROCOPIUS of SAZAVA; the Holy Hieromartyr CYPRIAN of CARTHAGE; our Venerable Father KUKSHA (Velichko) of ODESSA, Archimandrite of the Great Habit