Martyr
Martyrs Sophia and Irene of Egypt (3rd C)
In Russian: Мцц. Софии и Ирины (III)
In Church Slavonic: Мч҃ницъ софі́и и҆ і҆ри́ны (г҃)
Feast days
2026
Old calendar
- (18 September on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
2027
Old calendar
- (18 September on the Old calendar), repose
New calendar
- , repose
Also commemorated on 1 October 2026
- Thurday of the 18th week after Pentecost
- Afterfeast of the Exaltation of the Cross
- St. Eumenius, Bishop of Gortyna (7th C)
- Прославление прп. Евфросинии Суздальской, в миру Феодулии (1698)
- Venerable Hillarion of Optina
- Сщмчч. Алексия и Петра пресвитеров (1918)
- New Hieromartyr Amphilochiy, Bishop of Krasnoyarsk and those with him († 1937)
- Martyr Ariadne of Phrygia (2nd C)
- Great Martyr Prince Bidzini (Cholokashvili), and the martyred princes Shalva, and Elizbar of Xana, Georgia († 1660)
- Martyr Castor of Alexandria
- Молченской (1405), именуемой «Целительница» (XVIII), и Старорусской (1888) икон Божией Матери