Orthodox saints and name days on September 9

Name days on September 9

Joachim, Ioakeim, Anna, Anne, Severianos, Sevirianos, Severian, Ciaran, Kieran, Kiaran

Saints and feasts of September 9

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  Joachim and Anne

  Saint, Ιωακείμ και Άννα

  Saints Joachim and Anne were the parents of the Most Holy Theotokos. Righteous and devout, they remained childless into old age, bearing reproach with patience and beseeching God with tears; in answer to their prayer they were granted a daughter, Mary, whom they dedicated to the Lord in His Temple.

  Name days: Joachim, Ioakeim, Anna, Anne

• Severian of Sebaste

  Martyr, Σεβηριανός

  St. Severian was a nobleman of Sebaste in Armenia who visited and encouraged the Forty Martyrs in their prison. After their death he was himself denounced as a Christian before the governor Lysias, confessed Christ boldly, and was tortured and hanged by a stone from the city wall.

  Name days: Severianos, Sevirianos, Severian

• Fathers of the Third Ecumenical Council

  Saint, Γ' Οικουμενική Σύνοδος

  The Third Ecumenical Council met at Ephesus in 431 under the presidency of St. Cyril of Alexandria. It condemned the teaching of Nestorius, who divided Christ into two persons and refused the Virgin the title Theotokos, and confirmed that Mary is truly the Mother of God, since the one born of her is the eternal Son and Word.

• Theophanes the Confessor of Diabenos

  Venerable, Θεοφάνης ο Ομολογητής

  St. Theophanes was born of pagan parents and came to Christ as a youth, fleeing to Mount Diabenos where he lived under the guidance of an elder in fasting and prayer. He later suffered for the veneration of the holy icons and is honored as a confessor.

• Joseph of Volokolamsk

  Venerable, Ιωσήφ Βολοκολάμσκ

  St. Joseph was born near Volokolamsk in 1440 and became a monk in youth under St. Paphnutius of Borovsk. He founded the monastery of the Dormition at Volokolamsk, giving it a strict cenobitic rule and making it a center of charity in times of famine, and he defended Orthodoxy against the heresy of the Judaizers.

• Ciaran of Clonmacnoise

  Venerable, Κιαράν

  St. Ciaran was born in Connacht in the early sixth century and studied under St. Finnian of Clonard, being counted among the twelve apostles of Ireland. He founded the monastery of Clonmacnoise on the Shannon, which became one of the great centers of learning of the Irish Church.

  Name days: Ciaran, Kieran, Kiaran