September 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Oct. 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar

Saints

Protomartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thekla (1st century)
Venerable Nicander, hermit of Pskov (1581)
New-martyr of Alaska, Priest-monk Juvenaly
New-martyr of Alaska, Peter the Aleut, at the hands of Roman Catholics in San Francisco (1815)
Saint Silouan, elder of Mount Athos (1938) (celebrated Sep 11 on Old Calendar due to the year of his repose)
Venerable Dorothy of Kashin
Saint Coprius of Palestine (530)
Righteous Euphrosyne, daughter of Saint Paphnutius of Egypt
Saint Abramius, abbot of Mirozh in Pskov (1158)
Martyr Galacteon, monk of Vologda (1612)
Saints Stephen (monastic name Simon), David, and Vladislav of Serbia (1230-1239)
Saint Ahmet the Neo-Martyr, who'd been a Turkish convert to Orthodoxy in Ottoman Istanbul.

Other Commemorations

Repose of Schema-archimandrite Gabriel of Pskov-Eleazar Monastery (1915)

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