St. Phoebe the Deaconess of Cenchreae, commended by the Apostle Paul.
St. Phoebe was a deaconess of the Church at Cenchreae, the eastern port of Corinth, in the first century. The Apostle Paul commends her in his Epistle to the Romans as a servant of the Church and a helper of many, including himself, and tradition holds that she carried that epistle to Rome.
She is honored as the first deaconess named in Scripture and reposed in peace. Her memory is kept on September 3, a beloved name day in Greece.
Feast day
On the New Calendar, Phoebe the Deaconess is commemorated on September 3. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on September 16 of the civil calendar.
Who celebrates a name day
People with these names keep their name day on this feast:
Phoebe, Phoebi, Phoevi, Foivi, Fivi, Phivi, Fevi
Also commemorated on September 3
Theoktistos of Palestine
Venerable, Θεόκτιστος
Venerable Theoktistos, fellow ascetic of St. Euthymios the Great in the Judean desert.
Name days: Theoktistos, Theoctistus, Theoktisti
Polydoros the New Martyr of Cyprus
Martyr, Πολύδωρος
New Martyr Polydoros of Nicosia, martyred at Ephesus under the Ottomans.
Aristion of Alexandria
Hierarch, Αριστίων
Hieromartyr Aristion, bishop of Alexandria in Cilicia.
Name days: Aristion
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