Orthodox saints and name days on September 20

Name days on September 20

Efstathios, Efstathis, Stathis, Eustace, Eustathius, Efstathia, Stathoula, Theopisti, Theopiste

Saints and feasts of September 20

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  Eustace the Great Martyr

  Martyr, Ευστάθιος ο Μεγαλομάρτυς

  St. Eustathios, called Placidas before his baptism, was a Roman general of the second century. According to tradition he was converted while hunting, beholding a vision of the Cross between the antlers of a stag; he was baptized with his wife Theopiste and their two sons, endured the loss of all his possessions and family, and after years of trial was reunited with them.

  Name days: Efstathios, Efstathis, Stathis, Eustace, Eustathius, Efstathia, Stathoula, Theopisti, Theopiste

• Hilarion the New Martyr of Crete

  Martyr, Ιλαρίων ο Κρης

  St. Hilarion was born at Heraklion in Crete and, tradition relates, in youth was led to deny the faith in Constantinople. Repenting, he went to Mount Athos, was tonsured at the Skete of St. Anne, and prepared himself for martyrdom under the guidance of the elders.

• Hypatios and Andrew the Confessors

  Hierarch, Υπάτιος και Ανδρέας

  St. Hypatios, a bishop, and St. Andrew, a priest, were monks of Lydia who defended the veneration of the holy icons under the iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian in the eighth century. Tradition relates that they were tortured, their beards burned and their heads smeared with pitch, and at last beheaded.

• Maximos the Confessor and his Disciples

  Venerable, Μάξιμος ο Ομολογητής

  On September 20 the Greek Synaxarion remembers St. Maximos the Confessor together with St. Martin, Pope of Rome, and the confessors Euprepios, the two Anastasii and Theodore, who suffered with him for the Orthodox teaching of the two wills of Christ against the Monothelites in the seventh century. Maximos, the greatest theologian of his age, was mutilated and exiled and reposed in 662.

• Meletios of Cyprus

  Hierarch, Μελέτιος Κύπρου

  St. Meletios was a bishop in Cyprus remembered in the Synaxarion for his holy life and his care for his flock. He reposed in peace.

• John the Stranger of Crete

  Venerable, Ιωάννης ο Ξένος

  St. John the Stranger, called Xenos, was born at Siva in the Messara plain of Crete in the tenth century and lived as a hermit in many parts of the island, founding churches and monasteries wherever he went. Tradition relates that he traveled to Constantinople and received imperial support for his foundations.

• Eustathios of Thessaloniki

  Hierarch, Ευστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης

  St. Eustathios was a deacon and teacher of Constantinople, one of the great scholars of the twelfth century, who became Archbishop of Thessaloniki. He labored to reform the monastic life of his diocese and remained with his people through the Norman sack of the city in 1185, of which he wrote an account.