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
- Our Holy Mother Theodora of Salonica (879)d. 879
- Anastasios the New Martyr of BulgariaNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
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.