Orthodox saints and name days on September 22

Name days on September 22

Fokas, Phokas

Saints and feasts of September 22

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  Phokas the Gardener (2nd)

  Martyr, Φωκάς ο Κηπουρός

  St. Phokas was a humble gardener of Sinope on the Black Sea who lived by the labor of his hands, sharing his produce with the poor and offering hospitality to travelers. When soldiers were sent to execute him for being a Christian, he received them as guests, and having prepared them supper and dug his own grave, he revealed himself in the morning and met death with peace.

  Name days: Fokas, Phokas

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  Phokas of Sinope

  Hierarch, Φωκάς Σινώπης

  St. Phokas was bishop of Sinope on the Black Sea in the time of the emperor Trajan, known for his miracles and for converting many pagans. Brought before the governor Africanus, he refused to sacrifice and was tortured and cast into a bath of scalding water, where he gave up his soul.

  Name days: Phokas, Fokas

• Isaac and Martin the Martyrs

  Martyr, Ισαάκ και Μαρτίνος

  The holy martyrs Isaac and Martin confessed Christ in the time of the persecutions and were beheaded for the faith.

• Kosmas of Zographou

  Venerable, Κοσμάς ο Ζωγραφίτης

  St. Kosmas was a Bulgarian nobleman who fled a worldly marriage to become a monk at the monastery of Zographou on Mount Athos, where he served as ecclesiarch before withdrawing to a cave in solitude. Tradition relates that he was granted visions of the Mother of God and the gift of discernment.

• 26 Martyrs of Zographou

  Martyr, Οσιομάρτυρες Ζωγραφίτες

  In the years after the Council of Lyons, when the emperor Michael VIII sought to impose union with Rome on the Church, Latin-minded troops came to Mount Athos. The abbot Thomas and twenty-five monks of Zographou, warned according to tradition by a voice from an icon of the Theotokos, refused to accept the union and shut themselves in the monastery tower, where they were burned alive in 1275.

• Paraskeva of Sarov and Diveyevo

  Holy Woman, Παρασκευή του Σάρωφ

  Blessed Paraskeva was born a serf in the early nineteenth century and, after years of hardship, took up the life of a fool for Christ in the forests of Sarov, later living at the Diveyevo convent founded by St. Seraphim. She was known throughout Russia for her clairvoyance, and the emperor Nicholas II visited her at the glorification of St. Seraphim in 1903.