21 September
30 commemorations of 21 September in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 4 October of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Apodosis of the Exaltation of the Crossorthochristian.com · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Prophet Jonah (8th century BC)Ὁ Προφήτης Ἰωνὰςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr
- Apostle Quadratus of the Seventy, Apologist (c. 130)Ὁ Ἅγιος Κοδρᾶτος ὁ Ἀπόστολος ὁ ἐν Μαγνησίᾳsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Eusebius of Phoenicia (2nd century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Εὐσέβιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Holy Six Martyrs, by the sword (298)Οἱ Ἅγιοι 6 Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr
- Martyr Priscus of PhrygiaὉ Ἅγιος Πρίσκος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Eusebius, Nestabus, Zeno, brothers, with Nestor and Busiris, of Gaza (360-363)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐσέβιος, Νέσταβος, Ζήνων, Νέστωρ καὶ Βούσιρις οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Bassa of TyreἩ Ἁγία Βάσσαsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · saint.gr
- Hieromartyr Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus, and his Presbyter Andrew (730)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Jonah the Sabbaite, the Presbiter (9th century), father of Sts. Theophanes the Hymnographer and Theodore GraptusὉ Ὅσιος Ἰωνὰς ὁ Σαβαΐτηςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerables Isaacius (Akakios) and Meletius, Bishops of Sitis (Σίτης) in CyprusὉ Ὅσιος Ἰσαάκιος (ἢ Ἀκάκιος) Ἐπίσκοπος Κύπρουsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Daniel, founder of Shuzhgorsk Monastery, Belozersk (16th century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Joseph, founder of Zaonikiev Monastery, Vologda (1612)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Fedoseyev, Alexis Stabnikov, Constantine Shirokinsky, and John Flerov, Priests (1918)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Archimandrite Platon (Aivazidis), Protosyncellus of Metropolitan Germanos Karavangelis of Amasya (1921)saint.gr
- New Hieromartyr Theophan (Tuliakov), Metropolitan of Lipetsk and Belorussia (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Maurice (Poletaev), Archimandrite, of Yuriev-Polsky, and with him Martyr Basil Kondratiev (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyrs Valentine Nikolsky, Alexander Belyakov, John Lazarev, Andrew Benedictov, Peter Sakharovsky, and John Nikolsky, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr John Bystrov, Priest (1938)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Basil Krymkin, Priest (1942)pravenc.ru · 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.
- Saint Alexander, a bishop in the neighbourhood of Rome (2nd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Pamphilus, a martyr in RomeRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Mabyn (Mabena), a Cornish saint (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Gerulfus (Gerulph), a saint of Flanders (c. 746)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Maura, a holy virgin in Troyes, she reposed at the age of twenty-three after a life of prayer and good works (850)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.
- Uncovering of the relics (1752) of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov (1709)Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος Μητροπολίτης Ροστοβίας (Ρῶσος)oca.org · synaxarion.gr · calendar.rop.ru · ecclesia.gr · pravoslavie.ru · saint.gr
- Repose of Arseny (Chagovstsov), Archbishop of Winnipeg (1945)oca.org
- Repose of Priest Dumitru Staniloae of Romania (1993)pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Saints of Uglichholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Synaxis of the Church of "Panagia Giatrissa" ("The Healer"), on Therasia in the Greek Cyclades (1950s)saint.gr
The list is September 21 (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.