title: September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
text: # September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  
  Sep. 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 21
  
  All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 3 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
  
  For September 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 7.
  
  ## Saints
  
  * Great-martyr Eustathius Placidas, his wife Martyr Theopistes, and their sons Martyrs Agapius and Theopistus, of Rome (118)
  * Martyrs Artemidorus and Thallos, by the sword.
  * Martyr John the Confessor, of Egypt, beheaded in Palestine, and with him 40 martyrs (295 or 310)
  * Saints Theodore and Euprepius, and two men named Anastasius (7th century), confessors and disciples of Saint Maximos the Confessor.
  * Hieromartyrs Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus and Andrew the Presbyter, Confessors of the Holy Icons, under Leo III the Isaurian (8th century) (see also: September 21)
  * Venerable John the Godbearer, of Crete, monk (1031)
  * Venerable Meletius of Cyprus, Bishop. (see also: September 21)
  
  ## Pre-Schism Western saints
  
  * Saint Candida, a virgin-martyr in Carthage in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus (c. 300)
  * Saint Glycerius, Archbishop of Milan, Confessor (438)
  * Saint Agapitus I, Pope of Rome (536) (see also: April 17 - East)
  * Saint Vincent Madelgarius, Benedictine monk (677)
  * Saint Eusebia of Saint-Cyr, Benedictine Abbess of a convent in Marseilles in France, martyred with some forty nuns by the Saracens at Saint-Cyr (c. 731)
  
  ## Post-Schism Orthodox saints
  
  * Saint Eustathius of Thessalonica, Archbishop of Thessalonica (1197)
  * Holy Martyrs Blessed Prince Michael of Chernigov, and his counsellor Theodore of Chernigov, Wonderworkers (1245)
  * Saint Oleg Romanovich, Prince of Bryansk (1285)
  * Right-believing Prince John of Putyvl, Ukraine (14th century)
  * New Monk-martyr Hilarion the Cretan, of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Constantinople (1804)
  
  ### New martyrs and confessors
  
  * New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus Smelnitsky and Alexander Tetiuyev, Priests (1937)
  
  ## Other commemorations
  
  * Synaxis of the icon of Panagia Voulkaniotissa, in Messinia (1755)
  * Synaxis of the Saints of Bryansk.
  
  ## Icon gallery
  
  * St. Eustathios Placidas.
  * Martyrdom of St. Eustathios Placidas and family.
  * Eustathios of Thessaloniki, Archbishop (c.1175 - c.1195/6).
  * Holy Martyr Blessed Prince Michael of Chernigov.
  * New Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky).
  