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14 September

22 commemorations of 14 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 27 September of the civil calendar.

In the map: Elevation of the Holy Cross: Sept 14

Feasts

Saints

  • Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πάπας ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Theocles, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Θεοκλὴς ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Child-martyr Valerianus, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Βαλεριανὸς τὸ νήπιοsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Saint Placilla the Empress (Aelia Flaccilla), wife of St. Theodosius the Great (400)Ἡ Ὁσία Πλακίλλα ἡ Εὐσεβέστατη Βασίλισσαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Maria of Tarsus (607)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Pelagios of Lefkada, Bishop of Lefkada, who took part in the Sixth Ecumenical Council (7th century)saint.gr

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable New Martyr Macarius of Thessaloniki and Mount Athos, disciple of St. Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1527)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μακάριος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Νέοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Gerasimos the New, founder of the sacred monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia, near Makrinitsa (1740)saint.gr

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.

  • Saints Caerealis and Sallustia, martyred in Rome (251)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Crescentian, Victor, Rosula and Generalis, martyrs in North Africa who suffered at the same time and place as St Cyprian (c. 258)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Crescentius of Rome, child-martyr, martyred in Rome (c. 300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Maternus II, Bishop of Cologne in Germany (c. 325)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Cormac, probably the first Bishop of Cashel in Ireland (908)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.

  • Repose of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople (407)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Holy Fathers of the Sixth Ecumenical Council (680-681)Μνήμη Ἁγίας ΣΤ’ Οἰκουμενικῆς Συνόδουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Lesna Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1683)calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · ocafs.oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Sts. Alexandra (1789), Martha (1829), and Helen (1832), of Diveyevo Monasteryholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • The Appearance of the Sign of the Holy Cross over the church of St. John the Theologian at Mount Hymettus in suburban Athens, on the eve of the Feast of the... (1925)orthodoxinfo.com
  • Repose of Bishop Arsenius (Zhadanovsky) of Serpukhov (1937)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Archpriest Sergius Siderov of Kiev (1937)pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Priest Michael Shik of Moscow (1937)pravoslavie.ru

The list is September 14 (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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