Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- 120 Martyrs of PersiaMartyr
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.
The title places them at Persia.
They are kept together rather than separately, and for most of them the number, the place and the manner of death are the whole of what is recorded.
- St Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (582)Hierarch · d. 582
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 Constantinople. The year given is 582.
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.
- St Methodius, Enlightener of the Slavs life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius, Teacher of the Slavs
Methodius carried his brother’s translation mission through imprisonment, political pressure, and years of patient administration, proving that a holy beginning survives only when someone accepts the burden of sustaining it.
- Era
- c. 815–885
- Region
- Thessalonica, Asia Minor, Moravia, Pannonia, Rome, and Central Europe
- Category
- Monk, archbishop, translator, missionary, and Equal-to-the-Apostles
- Feast
- May 11 with St. Cyril; also April 6
- Platonis the Nun of NisibisMonastic
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 Nisibis.
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 6 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on April 19 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.