September 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
September 14 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 16
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 28 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 2.
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
Saints
- Martyrs Maximus, Theodotus, and Asclepiodota, of Adrianopolis
- Holy Two Virgin-Martyrs, by the sword.
- Martyr Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea Great-martyr Nicetas the Goth and those with him
- Saint Joseph, Abbot of Alaverdi Monastery in Georgia Venerable Philotheos the Presbyter of Asia Minor, Wonderworker
- Venerable Sabinus, a bishop who became a monastic.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Nicomedes, by tradition he was a priest martyred in Rome, perhaps under Domitian
- Saint Valerian, a companion of St Pothinus of Lyon in France
- Saint Alpinus, Bishop of Lyon
- Saint Mamilian of Palermo, Bishop of Palermo in Sicily
- Saint Aprus, Bishop of Toul
- Saint Leobinus, Abbot of Brou, then Bishop of Chartres
- Saint Hernin, a hermit in Brittany at a place called Loc-Harn after him
- Saint Merinus, abbot of Paisley Abbey
- Saint Aichardus, Abbot of St Benedict's at Quinçay near Poitiers, then Abbot of Jumièges
- Saint Ritbert, monk and abbot of a small monastery in Varennes in France
- Saint Ribert, Monk and Abbot of Saint-Valèry-sur-Somme in France
- 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
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Meletios, founder of the Monastery of Sergius.
- Venerable Nicetas, Bishop of Chytri, near Kythrea, in Cyprus.Saint Symeon of Thessaloniki, Archbishop of Thessaloniki
- Saint Nicetas, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh and founder of the Theophany Monastery in Kostroma
- Saints Bessarion I and Bessarion II, Metropolitans of Larissa.
- Saint Joseph the New of Partoёs, Metropolitan of Timișoara, Romania
- Saint Gerasimos the New, founder of the sacred monastery of the Holy Trinity in Sourvia, near Makrinitsa
- New Martyr John of Crete, at New Ephesus
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr John Ilinsky, Priest
- Virgin-martyr Eudokia Tkachenko
- New Hieromartyrs Andrew Kovalev, Gregory Konokotin, Gregory Troitsky, and John Yakovlev, Priests
- Venerable New Hiero-confessor Ignatius, Archimandrite, of the Aleksievo-Akatov Monastery in Voronezh
- New Hieromartyr Demetrius Ignatenko, Priest
- New Hieromartyrs John Borozdin, Jacob Leonovich, Peter Petrikov, and Nicholas Skvortsov, Priests
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Tsvetkov, Deacon
- Martyrs Mary Rykov and Ludmila Petrov
Other commemorations
- Uncovering of the relics of St. Acacius the Confessor, bishop of Melitene in Pisidia
- Icon of the Mother of God of Novonikita, carried by St Nicetas the Goth.
- Uncovering of the relics of Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen