Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Venerable Mary of EgyptMonastic life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Mary of Egypt
Mary’s long captivity to disordered desire did not place her beyond Christ’s reach; repentance became for her not a moment of shame, but an entire life turned toward freedom.
- Era
- Traditionally fifth or early sixth century
- Region
- Alexandria, Jerusalem, and the desert beyond the Jordan
- Category
- Penitent and desert ascetic
- Feast
- April 1 and the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
- Venerable Euthymius of SuzdalMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The title places them at Suzdal.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Martyrs Gerontius and BasilidesMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on April 1 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on April 14 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.