Afterfeast of the Transfiguration
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Euplus of CataniaMartyr
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 Catania.
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.
- The Holy Martyr Susanna the Virgin, and those with her (295-296)Martyr
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.
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.
- Saint Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople (1508)Hierarch · d. 1508
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 1508.
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.
- Repose of Fr Georges Florovsky (1979) (July 29 OC)Repose · 1979
What is known
Repose is the Orthodox word for a saint's death — falling asleep. The day of death is normally the day the Church keeps.
The year given is 1979.
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.
- Commemoration of St. Spyridon's Miracle in Corfu against the Turkish invasion of 1716
What is known
The title places it at Corfu. Kept in the Greek tradition.
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.
- Blane, Bishop of ButeHierarch
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 Bute. 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 August 11 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 24 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.