September 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
September 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 5
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 17 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 22.
Saints
Holy Prophet and God-seer Moses, on Mount Nebo- Martyrs Thathuil and Bebaia of Edessa
- Martyr Sarbellus, by stoning.Martyr Hermione of Ephesus, daughter of Apostle Philip the Deacon
- Saints Theotimos and Theodoulos the Executioners, who believed in Christ through St. Hermione, died peacefully
- Saint Petronius, likely the disciple of St. John the Theologian, who met St. Hermione in Ephesus
- Martyrs Christodoula and her sons Urban, Prilidian, and Epolonios Hieromartyr Babylas of Antioch, Bishop of Antioch, and three students, Ammonius, Donatos and Faustus
- The 3608 Martyrs of Nicomedia
- Martyr Babylas of Nicomedia, and with him 84 children
- Martyrs Theodore, Ammianus, Julian, Oceanus, and Centurionus, of Nicomedia
- Martyrs Kegourus, Secundinus, Secundus and their mother Jerusalem, in Veria.
- Martyr Charitina of Amisus
- Saint Petronius of Egypt, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Candida the Elder
- Saint Marcellus, a priest in Lyons, buried up to his waist on the banks of the Saône, where he survived for three days before he died
- Saint Marinus, hermit, founder of a chapel and monastery, from where the world's oldest surviving republic, San Marino, grew
- Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Trier in Germany.
- Saint Salvinus, third Bishop of Verdun in the north of France
- Saint Boniface I, a priest who was elected Pope of Rome in 418
- Saint Monessa, a holy woman converted by St Patrick in Ireland
- Saint Caletricus, Bishop of Chartres
- Saint Ultan of Ardbraccan, Bishop of Ardbraccan in Ireland
- Saint Rhuddlad, patron of Llanrhyddlad at the foot of Moel Rhyddlad in Anglesey in Wales
- Saint Ida of Herzfeld
- Saint Sulpicius of Bayeux, Bishop of Bayeux in France from c 838 to 843, martyred by the Vikings in Livry
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Symeon, Abbot and Wonderworker of Gareji
- Venerable Anthimus the Blind, the New Ascetic, of Cephalonia, patron saint of Astypalaia
- New Hieromartyr Parthenius, abbot, of Kiziltash Monastery in the Crimea
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Gregory, Bishop of Schlüsselburg
- New Hieromartyr Sergius, Bishop of Narva
- New Hieromartyr Stephen, Hieromonk, of Nikolskoye, Tver
- New Hieromartyrs Paul Vasilievsky, John Vasilevsky, Nicholas Lebedev, Nicholas Sretensky, John Romashkin, Nicholas Voshtev, Alexander Nikolsky, Peter Lebedinsky, Michael Bogorodsky, Elias Izmailov, Priests
- Martyrs Basil Yezhov, Peter Lonskov, Stephen Mityushkin and Alexander Blokhin
- New Hieromartyr Peter (Zimonjić), Metropolitan of Dabro-Bosnia
- Virgin-Martyr Elena Chernova
Other commemorations
- Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "The Unburnt Bush"
- Translation of the relics of St. Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester-on-Thames and Enlightener of Wessex.
- Translation of the relics of St. Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne.Uncovering of the relics of St. Ioasaph, Bishop of Belgorod.
- Uncovering of the relics of St. Theodore Hatzis, the New Martyr of Mytilene
- Second uncovering of the relics of St. Metrophanes, Bishop of Voronezh.Synaxis of the Saints of Voronezh.