Orthodox saints and name days on September 13

Name days on September 13

Kornilios, Aristidis, Aristeidis, Aristides, Aris, Aristea

Saints and feasts of September 13

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  Kornelios the Centurion

  Saint, Κορνήλιος

  St. Cornelius was a Roman centurion stationed at Caesarea, a devout man who feared God, gave alms generously, and prayed continually. As the Acts of the Apostles relates, an angel directed him to send for the Apostle Peter, and he and his household became the first Gentiles to be baptized into Christ.

  Name days: Kornilios

• Aristides the Philosopher

  Martyr, Αριστείδης

  St. Aristides was a philosopher of Athens in the second century who, after coming to faith in Christ, addressed a written defense of the Christians to the emperor Hadrian, and tradition relates a second to Antoninus Pius. His Apology, rediscovered in modern times, is among the earliest surviving defenses of the faith, setting Christian worship of the one Creator against the errors of the pagans and describing the pure life of the Christians.

  Name days: Aristidis, Aristeidis, Aristides, Aris, Aristea

• Founding of the Church of the Resurrection

  Saint, Εγκαίνια Ναού Αναστάσεως

  After St. Helen found the True Cross, the emperor Constantine the Great built a great church over the tomb of Christ and the hill of Golgotha in Jerusalem. Its dedication was celebrated in the year 335 with a gathering of bishops from across the empire, and the Exaltation of the Cross was appointed for the following day.

• Chronides, Leontios and Serapion

  Martyr, Κρονίδης, Λεόντιος και Σεραπίων

  The holy martyrs Chronides, Leontios and Serapion were Christians of Alexandria who confessed Christ in the persecution of the third century. Tradition relates that after torments they were cast into the sea and that their bodies were recovered and buried by the faithful.

• Meletios Pigas of Alexandria

  Hierarch, Μελέτιος Πηγάς

  St. Meletios Pigas was born in Crete in the sixteenth century and studied at Padua before embracing the monastic life. As Patriarch of Alexandria from 1590 he labored to strengthen the Orthodox of Egypt and, as locum tenens of Constantinople, defended the Church against Latin and Protestant pressures and against the new calendar of Rome.

• Hierotheos the Younger of Iveron

  Venerable, Ιερόθεος ο Ιβηρίτης

  St. Hierotheos was born at Kalamata in 1686 and, after studies in Constantinople, came to Mount Athos, where he was tonsured at the monastery of Iveron. A learned man, he later taught and preached in Venice and the Ionian islands before returning to the Holy Mountain to live in asceticism.

• Chrysostomos of Smyrna and the Hierarchs with him

  Hierarch, Χρυσόστομος Σμύρνης

  St. Chrysostomos was Metropolitan of Smyrna in the years of the Asia Minor catastrophe. Refusing to abandon his flock when the Turkish army entered the city in September 1922, he was handed over to a mob and killed. With him the Church honors the hierarchs Gregory of Kydonies, Ambrose of Moschonisia, Prokopios of Ikonion and Euthymios of Zela, who were martyred in the same days, together with the clergy and laity who died with them.