13 September
30 commemorations of 13 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 26 September of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Exaltation of the CrossΠροεόρτια Ὑψώσεως τοῦ Τιμίου καὶ Ζωοποιοῦ Σταυροῦorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion (1st century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Κορνήλιος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Aristides the Athenian, martyr (120)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀριστείδης ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Martyrs Serapion, Cronides, and Leontius, of Alexandria (c. 237)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κρονίδης, Λεόντιος, Σεραπίων, Γορδιανός, Σέλευκος, Μακρόβιος, Οὐαλέριος (ἢ Οὐαλεριανός), Λουκιανός, Ζωτικὸς καὶ Ἡλεῖ οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Straton of Nicomedia (3rd century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Στράτων ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Seleucus of Galatia (320)ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Elias, Zoticus, Lucian, Valerian, Macrobius, and Gordian at Tomis in Moesia (320)ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Eulogius I, Patriarch of Alexandria (608)pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Peter of Atroa, in Bithynia (or of Agrea) (early 9th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ ἐν τῷ Ἀτρώᾳ (κατ’ ἄλλους "ὁ ἐν τῇ Ἀγρέᾳ")synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · ocafs.oca.org
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint John of Prislop, Romania (15th-16th centuries)ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Cornelius of Padan-Olonets, disciple of St. Alexander of Svir, and with him Sts. Dionysius and Misael (16th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Meletius I Pegas, Patriarch of Alexandria (1601)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μέλετος Πηγᾶςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Great-martyr Ketevan, Queen of Kakheti, Georgia (1624)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Hierotheus of Kalamata (Hierotheos the New), monk of Iveron Monastery, Mt. Athos (1745)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰερόθεος ὁ Νέοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Stephan Kostogryz and Alexander Aksenov, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Vasyukovich, Deacon (1937)calendar.rop.ru · 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.
- , the father of St Eugenia of Rome, in whose home Sts Protus and Hyacinth were employed (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Litorius, Bishop of Tours (370)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Maurilius of Angers, Bishop of Angers (c. 430)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Nectarius, Bishop of Autun in France, and a friend of St Germanus of Paris (c. 550)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Amatus (Amat, Amé, Aimé, Amado), first abbot of Remiremont Abbey (627)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Venerius the Hermit, a hermit, then abbot on the Island of Tino in the Gulf of Genoa in Italy (c. 630)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Columbinus, successor of St Deicola as Abbot of Lure in France (c. 680)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Amatus (Aimé), Abbot of Agaunum, who became the tenth Bishop of Sion in Valais in Switzerland (690)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Barsenorius, Abbot of La-Croix-Saint-Leuffroi in France (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hedwig (Haduwy), Abbess of Herford Abbey in Westphalia in Germany (c. 887)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wilfrida of Wilton (Wulfthryth), Abbess of Wilton Abbey (c. 988)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection (the Holy Sepulchre) at Jerusalem (335)Ἐγκαίνια Ἱεροῦ Ναοῦ Ἁγίας Ἀναστάσεωςsynaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · jp-newsgate.net · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Icon of the Theotokos "Dubovich"
- Repose of Monk Dorotheus, last hermit of the Roslavl Forests (1866)pravoslavie.ru
The list is September 13 (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.