Sep. 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 16

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 28 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For September 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 2.

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross.^[1][2][3]

Saints

• Martyrs Maximus,^[4][5] Theodotus, and Asclepiodota, of Adrianopolis (305-311)^[1][3][6] (see also: September 17)
• Holy Two Virgin-Martyrs, by the sword.^[7]
• Martyr Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea (361)^{[1][5][8][9][note 2]} (see also: November 4)
• Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth and those with him (372)^{[1][3][5][11][12][note 3][note 4]}
• Saint Joseph, Abbot of Alaverdi Monastery in Georgia (570)^{[1][3][13][14][15]}
• Venerable Philotheos the Presbyter of Asia Minor, Wonderworker (10th century)^{[1][5][16][17]}
• Venerable Sabinus, a bishop who became a monastic.^[18]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Nicomedes, by tradition he was a priest martyred in Rome, perhaps under Domitian (c. 90)^{[19][note 5]}
• Saint Valerian, a companion of St Photinus (Pothinus) of Lyons in France (178)^{[19][note 6][note 7]}
• Saint Albinus (Aubin, Alpin), Bishop of Lyons (c. 390)^{[10][19][note 8]}
• Saint Mamilian of Palermo, Bishop of Palermo in Sicily (460)^{[19][note 9]}
• Saint Aprus (Aper, Apre, Epvre, Evre), Bishop of Toul (507)^{[10][19][note 10]}
• Saint Leobinus (Lubin), Abbot of Brou, then Bishop of Chartres (c. 556)^{[10][19][note 11]}
• Saint Hernin (Hernan), a hermit in Brittany at a place called Loc-Harn after him (6th century)^{[19][note 12]}
• Saint Merinus (Merin, Merryn, Meadhran), abbot of Paisley Abbey (c. 620)^{[14][19][note 13]}
• Saint Aichardus (Aicard, Achard), Abbot of St Benedict's at Quinçay near Poitiers, then Abbot of Jumièges (c. 687)^{[10][19][note 14]}
• Saint Ritbert, monk and abbot of a small monastery in Varennes in France (c. 690)^[19]
• Saint Ribert, Monk and Abbot of Saint-Valèry-sur-Somme in France (7th century)^{[19][note 15]}
• Saints Emilas and Jeremiah, two young men, the former of whom was a deacon, imprisoned and beheaded in Cordoba in Spain under the Caliph Abderrahman (852)^{[19][note 16]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Meletios, founder of the Monastery of Sergius.^{[5][21][note 17]}
• Venerable Nicetas, Bishop of Chytri, near Kythrea, in Cyprus.^{[5][22][note 18]}
• Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki, Archbishop of Thessaloniki (1429)^{[1][3][5][14][23]}
• Saint Nicetas, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh and founder of the Theophany Monastery in Kostroma (15th century)^[1]
• Saints Bessarion I (1490-1499) and Bessarion II (1527-1540),^[24] Metropolitans of Larissa.^{[1][5][14][25][note 19][note 20]}
• Saint Joseph the New of Partoёs, Metropolitan of Timișoara, Romania (1656)^[1][14][26]
• Saint Gerasimos the New, founder of the sacred monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia, near Makrinitsa (c. 1740)^{[1][5][27][28]}
• New Martyr John of Crete, at New Ephesus (1811)^{[1][5][29][30]}

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John Ilinsky, Priest (1918)^[3][14][31]
• Virgin-martyr Eudokia Tkachenko (1918)^[3][14][32]
• New Hieromartyrs Andrew Kovalev,^[33] Gregory Konokotin,^[34] Gregory Troitsky,^[35] and John Yakovlev,^[36] Priests (1921)^[3][14]
• Venerable New Hiero-confessor Ignatius (Biryukov), Archimandrite, of the Aleksievo-Akatov Monastery in Voronezh (1932)^{[1][3][14][37]}
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ignatenko, Priest (1935)^[3][14][38]
• New Hieromartyrs John Borozdin,^[39] Jacob Leonovich,^[40] Peter Petrikov, and Nicholas Skvortsov, Priests (1937)^[3][14]
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Tsvetkov, Deacon (1937)^[3][14]
• Martyrs Mary Rykov and Ludmila Petrov (1937)^[3][14]

Other commemorations

• Uncovering of the relics of St. Acacius the Confessor, bishop of Melitene in Pisidia (251)^{[1][3][14][41][42][note 21]}
• Icon of the Mother of God of Novonikita, carried by St Nicetas the Goth (372).^[3][14][43]
• Uncovering of the relics of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (415)^{[1][3][14][44]}

Icon gallery

• 
  Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, and Asclepiodote, of Adrianopolis.
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  St. Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea.
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  Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth.
• 
  Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth.
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  St. Mamilian of Palermo, Bishop of Palermo.
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  St. Symeon of Thessaloniki, Archbishop of Thessaloniki.