# September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

September 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - September 29
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on October 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on September 15.

## Saints

* Prophet Baruch (6th century BC)
* Martyrs Eustathios of Rome and Callinicus, by the sword.
* Venerable Chariton the Confessor, Abbot, of Palestine (350)
* Martyrs Alexander, Alphius and Zosimas, brothers, Mark the Shepherd, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus, and 24 others, in Pisidia and Phrygia (4th century)
* Saint Alkison, Bishop of Nicopolis (Preveza) in Epirus (561)
* Martyr Wenceslas (Vyacheslav) I of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs (935)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Paternus, Born in Bilbao in Spain, he was one of the earliest Bishops of Auch in France (2nd century)
* Saint Privatus, a citizen of Rome scourged to death under Alexander Severus (223)
* Martyr Stacteus, in Rome.
* Martyrs Martial, Laurence and Companions, A group of twenty-two martyrs in North Africa.
* Saint Exuperius (Exupère, Soupire), Bishop of Toulouse, Confessor (411)
* Saint Eustochium, Abbess of a convent in Bethlehem, an early Desert Mother (419)
* Saint Silvinus, Bishop of Brescia in Italy (444)
* Saint Faustus of Riez, Bishop of Riez (495)
* Saint Machan, disciple of St. Cadoc.
* Saint Conwall (Conval), born in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Kentigern and preached in Scotland (c. 630)
* Hieromartyr Annemund (Chamond), Archbishop of Lyons in France, he was murdered in Châlon-sur-Saône by the tyrant Ebroin (657)
* Saints Willigod and Martin, monks at Moyenmoutier in France who founded the monastery of Romont (c. 690)
* Saint Tetta, Abbess of Wimborne in Dorset, who sent nuns from her 500-strong convent to St Boniface (c. 772)
* Saint Lioba, Abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, English missionary to Germany (c. 781)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Auxentius the Alaman, ascetic and Wonderworker, leader of the "300 Allemagne Saints" of Cyprus (12th century)
* Saints Cyril, Schemamonk, and Maria, Schemanun, parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh (c. 1337)
* Venerable Chariton, Abbot of Syandema Monastery, Vologda (1509)
* Venerable Herodion, founder of Iloezersk Monastery, Belozersk (1541)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Martyr Anna Lykoshin, at Solovki Monastery (1925)
* New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Gromov), Hieromonk, of Petushki, Vladimir (1937)
* Virgin-martyr Michaela (Ivanova), Schemanun, of Aksinyino, Moscow (1937)
* Virgin-martyr Tatiana Chekmazovoy (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Uncovering of the relics of St. Neophytus the Recluse, of Cyprus (1214)
* Synaxis of the Holy Fathers of Kiev whose relics lie in the Near Caves of St. Anthony.

## Icon gallery

* Prophet Baruch.
* Venerable Chariton the Confessor.
* Venerable Chariton the Confessor.
* Martyr Alexander and 30 others in Pisidia and Phrygia.
* Martyr Wenceslas I of Bohemia (Vyacheslav), Prince of the Czechs.
* Reliquary of St. Exuperius (Exupère, Soupire), Bishop of Toulouse, Confessor.
* St. Faustus of Riez, Bishop of Riez.
* Sts Cyril and Maria and infancy of their son Sergius of Radonezh.
* Synaxis of the Holy Fathers of Kiev whose relics lie in the Near Caves of St. Anthony.