Saint of the Day for September 7
Saint of the Day
Kassia
Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer
Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.
Other saints and blesseds of the day
- ClodoaldFrankish monk and bishop
- Melchior GrodzieckiPolish Jesuit, saint, martyr
- Reginavirgin martyr and saint of the Catholic Church
- Gratus of AostaItalian bishop and saint
- John of LodiItalian Benedictine bishop and saint (1040-1105)
- Giovanni Mazzucconi19th-century Italian Catholic priest
- Macaire de Kanev
Bible Verse of the Day
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
On September 7 the Church remembers several saints and blesseds. Every day of the year has its saints: browse them all in the saints calendar.