August 28 — Orthodox Calendar — Meals for the Soul

Ven. Job of Pochaev

Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.

Commemorated today

Uncovering of the Relics of St Job of Pochaev (1651)Uncovering of relics · 1651
What is known
An uncovering is the finding of relics that had been lost, hidden in a persecution, or simply forgotten.
The title places it at Pochaev. The year given is 1651.
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.
St Moses of Ethiopia (400)d. 400
What is known
The title places them at Ethiopia. The year given is 400.
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.
Righteous Anna the Prophetess (1st century)Righteous · 1st century
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The year given is the 1st 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.
Righteous Hezekiah, King of Judah (691 BC)Righteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The title places them at Judah.
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 Chrysostom, metropolitan of Smyrna (1922)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 1922
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 Smyrna. The year given is 1922.
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 Elder Joseph the Hesychast of Mt Athos (1959) (August 15 OC)Repose · 1959
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 title places it at Mt Athos. The year given is 1959.
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.
Diomedes & Laurence the MartyrsMartyr
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.
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.
33 Martyrs of NicomedeaMartyr
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 Nicomedea. Kept in the Greek tradition.
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.
Synaxis of the Kiev Cave FathersA synaxis — several kept together
What is known
A synaxis is an assembly: a day on which a group is kept together rather than one by one. It often falls the day after a great feast, honouring those who stood closest to it.
A synaxis is an assembly: a day that gathers a group together, or that honours those who stood closest to a feast kept the day before. What survives of each of them varies, and for most it is very little.

Appointed readings

About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 28 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 10 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.