Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Hieromartyr Simeon, Kinsman of the LordHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on 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.
- Our Holy Father Stephen, Abbot of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Vladimir (1094)Hierarch · d. 1094
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Kiev Caves. The year given is 1094.
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.
- Burning of the relics of St Sava I of Serbia by the Turks (1594)Relics · 1594
What is known
A commemoration attached to a saint's relics rather than to the day of their death.
The title places it at Serbia. The year given is 1594.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- Eulogios the Innkeeper of Constantinople
What is known
The title places them at Constantinople. Kept in the Greek tradition.
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 27 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 10 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.