Procession of the Lifegiving Cross
Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-giving Cross of the Lord (1164)d. 1164
- Begin Dormition Fast
- Holy Seven Maccabees, their mother Solomonia, and their teacher Eleazar (168 BC)
- St Nicholas, enlightener of Japan (1912)d. 1912
- Timothy the Wonderworker, Archbishop of PriconissusHierarch
- Elesa the Righteous-Martyr of KythiraMartyr
Appointed readings
- 1 Corinthians 1:18–24
- John 19:6–11, 13–20, 25–28, 30–35
- Hebrews 11:33–12:2
- Matthew 10:32–36, 11:1
- Hebrews 2:11–18
- John 5:1–4
- Hebrews 11:33–12:2
- Matthew 10:16–22
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 1 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 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.