Orthodox calendar: September 23 - memory of the martyrs Minodora, Metrodora and Nymphodoratranslated

17th Week after Pentecost.

Today, September 23, 2026, mcc. Minodora, Mitrodora and Nymphodora (305-311); App. from 70 Appellius, Lucius and Clement (I); martyr Varipsava (II); blgv. Queen of the Greek Pulcheria (453); svtt. Peter and Paul, bishops of Nicaea (IX); St. Paul the Obedient, Pechersky (XIII-XIV); St. book Andrew, in monasticism Joasaph, Spasokubensky (1453); Cathedral of Lipetsk Saints; sschmchch. Ismail, Eugene, John, Constantine, Peter, Vasily, Gleb, Vasily, John, Peter, Nicholas, Palladius presbyters and martyrs. Meletia and Gabriel, martyr. Simeon, MC. Tatiana (1937); sschmch. Huara, ep. Lipetsky (1938).

Fast day.

The holy maidens Minodora, Mitrodora and Nymphodora (305 – 311), sisters, came from Bithynia (Asia Minor). Distinguished by their special piety, the Christian sisters wished to maintain a virgin life and not come into contact with the world. They chose a secluded place in the desert and spent their lives in feats of fasting and prayer. The fame of the holy lives of the girls soon spread, as healings of the sick began to take place through their prayers.

The Bithynia region was ruled at that time by a ruler named Fronto, who ordered the sisters to be captured and brought to him. At first…