Nativity of the Most-Holy Theotokos
Great Feast. One of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church year.
Commemorated today
- The Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
- New Martyr Athanasius of Thessalonika (1774)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1774
- Our Venerable Father Serapion of Pskov (1481)Monastic · d. 1481
- Sophronios, Bishop of IberiaHierarch
Appointed readings
- Genesis 28:10–17
- Ezekiel 43:27–44:4
- Proverbs 9:1–11
- Luke 1:39–49, 56
- Philippians 2:5–11
- Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on September 8 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 21 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.