September 8

The days of month September: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30

Feasts

The Nativity of the Theotokos (one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church); Saint Serapion, monk of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery, Pskov (see also September 7); Saint Lucian, Abbot of Alexandrov; Saint Arsenius, Abbot of Konevits; New-Martyr Athanasius of Thessaloniki; New-Martyr Alexander (Jacobson); Martyrs Rufus and Rufianus; Martyrs Severus and Artemidorus; Saint Sophronius of Iberia, Bishop; Saint Ethelburga, Abbess of Lyminge; Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos: "Kursk-Root" Icon of the sign; "Pochaev," "Kholmsk," and others; translation of the relics of Saint Grimald, Abbot of Winchester; repose of Elder Daniel of Katounakia, Mount Athos