Holy Martyrs Chronides, Leontios and Serapion of Alexandria.
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.
They are commemorated on September 13.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Chronides, Leontios and Serapion is commemorated on September 13. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on September 26 of the civil calendar.
Also commemorated on September 13
Aristides the Philosopher
Martyr, Αριστείδης
Holy Martyr Aristides the Philosopher of Athens, apologist of the faith.
Name days: Aristidis, Aristeidis, Aristides, Aris, Aristea
Founding of the Church of the Resurrection
Saint, Εγκαίνια Ναού Αναστάσεως
Commemoration of the dedication of the Church of the Resurrection, the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem.
Meletios Pigas of Alexandria
Hierarch, Μελέτιος Πηγάς
St. Meletios Pigas, Patriarch of Alexandria, theologian and defender of Orthodoxy.
Hierotheos the Younger of Iveron
Venerable, Ιερόθεος ο Ιβηρίτης
Venerable Hierotheos the Younger of Kalamata, monk of Iveron on Mount Athos.
Chrysostomos of Smyrna and the Hierarchs with him
Hierarch, Χρυσόστομος Σμύρνης
Hieromartyr Chrysostomos of Smyrna and the bishops martyred with him in the Asia Minor catastrophe of 1922.
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