September 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Sep. 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Sep. 3

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Sep. 15 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar

Saints

• Martyr Mamas of Caesarea in Cappadocia with his parents, martyrs Theodotus and Rufina (275)
• Saint John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople (595)
• 3,618 martyrs of Nicomedia (3rd and 4th centuries)
• Venerable Anthony and Theodosius, Founders of Monasticism in Rus' of the Kiev Caves
• Martyrs Diomedes, Julian the martyr, Philip the martyr, Eutykhian, Hesychios the martyr, Leonides the martyr, Eutychios the martyr, Philadelphos, Melanippos, Parthagapa and Theodore the martyr (see Saint Diomedes).
• Righteous Eleazar, son of Aaron
• Righteous Phinehas, son of Eleazar, grandson of Aaron
• Martyrs Aeithalas and Ammon of Thrace

Other commemorations

• Celebration of the Icon of the Theotokos at Kaluga
• Repose of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose of Platina (1982)