Forefeast of Dormition
Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- Prophet MicahProphet
- Translation of the Relics of St Theodosius of the Kiev CavesTranslation of relics
- Hieromartyr Marcellus, Bishop of Apamea (389)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 389
- Holy New Martyr Symeon of Trapezoundos (1653)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1653
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 14 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 27 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.