Template:September 8

The Nativity of the Theotokos; Saint Serapion, monk of Spaso-Eleazar Monastery, Pskov (see also September 7); Saint Lucian, Abbot of Alexandrov; Saint Arsenius, Abbot of Konevits; New-Martyr Athanasius of Thessaloniki; New-Martyr Alexander (Jacobson); Martyrs Rufus and Rufianus; Martyrs Severus and Artemidorus; Saint Sophronius of Iberia, Bishop; Saint Ethelburga, Abbess of Lyminge; Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos: "Kursk-Root" Icon of the sign; "Pochaev," "Kholmsk," and others; translation of the relics of Saint Grimald, Abbot of Winchester; repose of Elder Daniel of Katounakia, Mount Athos