Beheading of St John the Baptist
Great Feast. A feast of the Lord or of the Theotokos.
Fast day — no meat, dairy, fish, wine or oil.
Commemorated today
- The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist JohnProphet
What is known
A prophet in the Orthodox calendar is almost always one of the Old Testament prophets, commemorated by the Church that reads them as speaking of Christ.
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 Holy Mother Theodora of Salonica (879)d. 879
What is known
The title places them at Salonica. The year given is 879.
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.
- Anastasios the New Martyr of BulgariaNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
What is known
A new martyr died in one of the later persecutions rather than the Roman ones — most often under Ottoman rule, or in the twentieth century under Soviet and other modern regimes. The word new distinguishes the era, not the manner.
The title places them at Bulgaria. 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.
Appointed readings
- Composite 8 – Isaiah 40, 41, 45, 48, 54
- Composite 9 – Malachi 3, 4
- Composite 3 – Wisdom of Solomon 4, 5
- Matthew 14:1–13
- Acts 13:25–33
- Mark 6:14–30
- Acts 13:25–32
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 29 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 11 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.