Holy Greatmartyr, Victorybearer and Wonderworker George
Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Holy Glorious Great-martyr, Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George (303)Great Martyr · d. 303 life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Greatmartyr George the Victory-Bearer
The soldier who refused to serve falsehood became one of Christianity’s most beloved martyrs—not because he conquered by violence, but because Christ conquered fear in him.
- Era
- Late third to early fourth century
- Region
- Traditionally Cappadocia, Palestine, and the Roman imperial world
- Category
- Greatmartyr, soldier, Victory-Bearer, and wonderworker
- Feast
- April 23
Appointed readings
- Isaiah 43:9–14
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- Luke 12:2–12
- Acts 12:1–11
- John 15:17–16:2 continues in 16
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on April 23 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 6 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.