Orthodox calendar: September 18 is the day of remembrance of the holy prophet Zechariah and righteous Elizabethtranslated

16th Week after Pentecost.

Today, September 18, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the prophet. Zechariah and rights. Elizabeth, parents of St. John the Baptist (I); mchch. Fifaila and his sister Thebea (Vivea) (98-138); mts. Rais (Iraids) (c. 308); mchch. Iuventina and Maximus warriors (361-363); mchch. Urvana, Theodora and Medimna and with them 77 men from the church rank, suffered in Nicomedia (370); martyr Obadiah (Avida) in Persia (V); prmch. Athanasius of Brest (1648); transfer of the relics of the bldgv. book Peter, in the monasticism of David, and Prince. Fevronia, in monasticism Euphrosyne, Murom Wonderworkers (1992); blgv. book Gleb, in St. Baptism of David (1015); martyr Sarvila (Gr. Cal); martyr Euphemia (1937); finding the relics of St. Alexandra isp (2001); Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of Kazakhstan; Orsha Icon of the Mother of God (1631).

Fast day.

The holy prophet Zechariah and the holy righteous Elizabeth were the parents of the holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John. They came from the Aaronic family: Saint Zechariah, son of Barachiah, was a priest in the Jerusalem Temple, and Saint Elizabeth was the sister of Saint Anna, the mother of the Most Holy Theotokos. Righteous spouses, “walking blamelessly in all the commandments of the Lord”...