title: September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # September 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  September 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 24
  
  All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For September 23rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 10.
  
  ## Feasts
  
  * The Conception of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Saints Xanthippe and Polyxena, of Spain, disciples of the Apostles (109)
  * Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais, Raissa) of Alexandria (308)
  * Martyrs Andrew and John, and his sons Peter and Antoninus, of Syracuse, martyred in Africa (9th century)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome (c. 79) (In the East: January 4 and November 5 )
  * Saint Paternus (Pair), Bishop of Avranches (c. 563)
  * Saint Constantius, sacristan of the ancient church of St Stephen in Ancona in Italy (6th century)
  * Saint Adomnán, Abbot of Iona, biographer of Saint Columba (704)
  * Saint Cissa of Crowland, a disciple of St Guthlac at Crowland in England (early 8th century)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * New Martyr Nicholas the Grocer ("O Pantopolis"), at Constantinople (1672)
  * New Martyr John of Konitsa, Epirus, by beheading (1814)
  * New Hieromartyr Gregory (Kalamaras), Metropolitan of Argos and Nauplion, Ethnomartyr (1821)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyr John Pankratovich, Priest (1937)
  * New Hieromartyr Arsenius, Archimandrite (1937)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Icon of the Mother of God of Slovenka (Solvenskaya) (1635)
  * Repose of Abbess Eupraxia of Old Ladoga Convent (1823)
  * Repose of Hieroschemamonk Jerome of Solovki (1847)
  * Glorification (1977) of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska and Siberia (1879)
  * Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Theotokos "Hawaiian" (2007)
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * Icon of the Conception of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.
  * Annunciation to Zachariah.
  * Saints Xanthippe and Polyxena, of Spain.
  * St. Xanthippe of Spain.
  * Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais, Raissa) of Alexandria.
  * St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of Alaska and Siberia.
  