Orthodox calendar: September 15 is the day of remembrance of Saints Anthony and Theodosius of Pechersktranslated

16th Week after Pentecost.

Today, September 15, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the martyr. Mamant, his father Theodotus and mother Rufina (III); St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople (595); prpp. Antonia (1073); Theodosius (1074) Pechersk; mchch. 3628 in Nicomedia (III-IV); finding the relics of St. Theodosius of Totemsky (1796); sschmchch. Barsanuphius, bishop Kirillovsky, and with him John the Presbyter, Primts. Seraphim abbess and martyr. Anatoly, Nikolai, Mikhail and Philip (1918); sschmchch. Damascene, bishop Starodubsky, and with him Euthymius, John, John, Vladimir, Victor, Theodotus, Peter, Stephen presbyters (1937); sschmch. Herman, bishop Vyaznikovsky, Stephen the presbyter and martyr. Paul (1937); Kaluga Icon of the Mother of God (1771).

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The founder of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Saint Anthony, was born at the beginning of the 11th century in the city of Lyubech (near Chernigov) and was named Antipas in baptism. From a young age, he felt an attraction to a higher spiritual life and, by inspiration from above, decided to go to Athos. In one of the Athos monasteries, he took monastic vows and began a solitary life in a cave near this monastery, which is still shown today. When he acquired spiritual experience in his exploits, the abbot gave him...