23 Сентября 1840 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, September 23, 1840 (September 11, 1840 by the Julian calendar)
15^th Week after Pentecost, Tone five

Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. + Translation of the relics of Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valaam (1353). St. Silouan, elder of Mt. Athos (1938). St. Theodora of Alexandria (490). Hieromartyrs Nicolos and Victor priests (1918). Hieromartyr Carp priest (1937). Martyrs Demetrius, his wife Euanthia, and their son Demetrian at Skepsis on the Hellespont (1st c.). Martyrs Diodorus, Didymus, and Diomedes of Laodicea (4th c.). Martyr Ia of Persia and 9,000 Martyrs with her (363). St. Euphrosynus the Cook of Alexandria (9th c.). Weeping Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, of "Kaplunovka" (1689). Martyrs Serapion, Cronides (Hieronides), and Leontius of Alexandria (237). St. Paphnutius the Confessor, bishop in the Egyptian Thebaid (4th c.). Holy Martyr Theodora of Vasta in the Peloponnesus. Canonization (1978) of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg (18th c.). St. Deiniol, abbot of Bangor, bishop in Wales (584) (Celtic & British).