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8 September

24 commemorations of 8 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 21 September of the civil calendar.

In the map: Nativity of the Theotokos: Sept 8

Feasts

Saints

  • Martyrs Rufus and Rufianus, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι Ροῦφος καὶ Ρουφιάνος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Martyr Severus, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Σέβηρος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · saint.gr
  • Martyr Artemidorus, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Ἀρτεμίδωρος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · saint.gr
  • Martyrs Eusebius, Nestablus, Zeno, and Nestor, by a mob (c. 362)

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Saint Serapion, monk of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery, Pskov (1481)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Lucian, Abbot, of Alexandrov (1654)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Athanasius of Thessaloniki (1774)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • Saint Sophronius, Bishop of Achtaleia in Iberia (Georgia) (1803)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σωφρόνιοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
  • Saints Ioane (Maisuradze), Archimandrite (1957), and Giorgi-Ioane (Mkheidze), Schema-Archimandrite (1960), Confessors, of Georgiapravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Martyr Alexander Jacobson, at Solovki (1930)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Demetrius, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com

Saints of the West before the Schism

Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.

  • Saint Anastasius II, Pope of Rome (498)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Kingsmark (Kinemark, Cynfarch), disciple of St. Dyfrig (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Æthelburh of Kent (Ethelburga), daughter of King Ethelbert of Kent, who married King Edwin of Northumbria, and founded the convent of Lyminge in Kent... (c. 647)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Disibod (Disibode, Disen), founder of Disibodenberg Abbey in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (c. 700)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Sergius, Pope of Rome (701)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Corbinian, a hermit who was consecrated a Bishop and was sent as a missionary to Bavaria (c. 730)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Ine of Wessex, King of Wessex, and his wife Queen Ethelburga (c. 740)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • Translation of the relics of St. Grimbald, Abbot of Winchester Abbeyholytrinityorthodox.com
  • Repose of Archbishop Dionysius of Ufa (1896)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Elder Daniel of Katounakia, Mount Athos (1929)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Priest Dimitrie Bejan of Romania (1995)pravoslavie.ru
  • Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos
    • Kholmsk (1st century)
    • "Kursk Root" (1295)
    • Syamsk (1524)
    • Pochaev (1559)
    • Glinsk (16th century)
    • Lukianov (16th century)
    • Isaakov (1659)
    • Domnitsk (1696)
    • Lesna (Lesninsk) (1696)
    • "Kathariotissa", on Ithaca (c. 1696)
    • Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (Kiev)
    • Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos, at several locations in Greece

The list is September 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.

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