Leavetaking of Transfiguration
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- St Tikhon of Zadonsk (1783)d. 1783
What is known
The title places them at Zadonsk. The year given is 1783.
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 Maximos the Confessor (662)Confessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed · d. 662
What is known
A confessor suffered for the faith and lived: imprisoned, exiled, tortured, stripped of office. The Church honours the witness without requiring the death.
The year given is 662.
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.
- Holy Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and 18 Martyrs with him (258)Martyr · d. 258
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 Rome. The year given is 258.
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.
- Our Holy Mother the Empress Irene (Xenia in Monasticism) (12th century)12th century
What is known
The title places them at Monasticism. The year given is the 12th century.
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 Righteous Fathers Sergius, Stephanus, Castor and PalamonusRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
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.
- Dorotheus, Abba of Gaza life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Dorotheos of Gaza
With memorable images drawn from ordinary life, Dorotheos taught that humility, obedience, conscience, and refusal to condemn are not introductory virtues to outgrow, but the road into communion.
- Era
- Sixth century
- Region
- Gaza and Palestine
- Category
- Monk, abbot, servant of the sick, and spiritual teacher
- Feast
- June 5
Appointed readings
- Composite 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Proverbs 10:31–11:12 continues in 11
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:9–16
- Hebrews 7:26–8:2 continues in 8
- Matthew 5:14–19
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 13 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 26 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.