Orthodox saints and name days on September 7

Name days on September 7

Sozont, Sozon, Kassiani, Cassiane, Cassiani, Kassia, Cassia, Kasiani, Onesiphoros, Onisiforos, Onesiphorus, Evodos, Eupsychios, Efpsychios

Saints and feasts of September 7

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  Sozont

  Martyr, Σώζων

  St. Sozon was a shepherd of Cilicia in Asia Minor who tended his flock in prayer and meditation on the Scriptures. During a time of persecution he confessed Christ boldly at Pompeiopolis, and after enduring torture he gave up his soul to God, receiving the crown of martyrdom.

  Name days: Sozont, Sozon

• Kassiani the Hymnographer

  Holy Woman, Κασσιανή

  St. Kassiani was a noblewoman of Constantinople in the ninth century, learned and pious. Tradition relates that she was among the maidens presented to the emperor Theophilos as a prospective bride and that her bold reply cost her the crown; she embraced the monastic life instead and founded a convent in the city.

  Name days: Kassiani, Cassiane, Cassiani, Kassia, Cassia, Kasiani

• Evodos and Onesiphoros the Apostles

  Apostle, Εύοδος και Ονησιφόρος

  St. Evodos was the first bishop of Antioch after the Apostle Peter, and is remembered by his successor St. Ignatius the God-bearer; tradition holds that he was martyred under Nero. St. Onesiphoros is praised by the Apostle Paul, who writes that he often refreshed him and was not ashamed of his chains, seeking him out diligently in Rome.

  Name days: Onesiphoros, Onisiforos, Onesiphorus, Evodos

• Eupsychios of Caesarea

  Martyr, Ευψύχιος

  St. Eupsychios was the son of a senator of Caesarea in Cappadocia who confessed Christ in the reign of Hadrian. He was tortured and imprisoned, and tradition relates that he was healed of his wounds in prison by an angel; brought again before the governor, he was put to death by the sword.

  Name days: Eupsychios, Efpsychios

• Daniel of Katounakia

  Venerable, Δανιήλ ο Κατουνακιώτης

  St. Daniel of Katounakia was born in Smyrna in 1846 and came to Mount Athos as a young man, living for years at the monastery of St. Panteleimon and later in the desert of Katounakia, where he founded the brotherhood of the Danielaioi. He was a learned spiritual father, iconographer and writer, consulted by elders across the Holy Mountain and by St. Nektarios of Aegina.

• Chrysostomos of Florina

  Hierarch, Χρυσόστομος Φλωρίνης

  St. Chrysostomos Kavouridis was born in 1870 at Madytos in Eastern Thrace and studied theology at the Theological School of Halki, graduating in 1901. He served the Church as a preacher and hierarch and was elected Metropolitan of Florina.

• John of Novgorod

  Hierarch, Ιωάννης Νοβγορόδου

  St. John was Archbishop of Novgorod in the twelfth century, a man of prayer and a defender of his city. Tradition relates that during a siege of Novgorod he carried the icon of the Mother of God of the Sign onto the walls and the enemy was turned back, and that he was slandered and vindicated by a miracle on the river Volkhov.

• Luke of Batheos Ryakos

  Venerable, Λουκάς ο Λυκάων

  St. Luke was born in Lycaonia and became the third abbot of the monastery of the Savior called Batheos Ryakos, the Deep Stream, near Triglia in Bithynia, a house famed for the strictness of its rule. He guided the brethren in humility and reposed in peace in the tenth century.