Venerable Philotheos the Presbyter and Wonderworker of Bithynia.
St. Philotheos was a married priest of a village in Bithynia in the tenth century, a man of prayer, fasting and generous charity. Tradition relates that he was granted the gift of working miracles in his lifetime, and that after his repose a healing myrrh flowed from his relics.
He is commemorated on September 15.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Philotheos the Presbyter is commemorated on September 15. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on September 28 of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Philotheos, Filotheos, Philotheus
Also commemorated on September 15
Bessarion of Larissa
Hierarch, Βησσαρίων Λαρίσης
St. Bessarion, Archbishop of Larissa, founder of the Dousikou Monastery.
Name days: Vissarion, Bessarion, Vissarionas
John the New Martyr of Crete
Martyr, Ιωάννης ο Κρης
New Martyr John of Crete, martyred at New Ephesus under the Ottomans.
Porphyrios the Mime
Martyr, Πορφύριος ο Μίμος
Holy Martyr Porphyrios the actor, baptized on stage and martyred for Christ.
Symeon of Thessaloniki
Hierarch, Συμεών Θεσσαλονίκης
St. Symeon, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, liturgist and theologian.
Joseph the New of Partos
Hierarch, Ιωσήφ ο Νέος
St. Joseph the New of Partos, Metropolitan of Timisoara.
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