Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Hieromartyr EutychiusHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
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.
- New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 1779
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Aitolia. The year given is 1779.
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.
- Translation of the relics of Peter, Metropolitan of KievHierarch · Translation of relics
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 it at Kiev.
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.
- The Translation of the Relics of Dionysios of Zakynthos, Bishop of AeginaHierarch · Translation of relics
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 it at Zakynthos. 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.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 24 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 6 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.