Forefeast of Transfiguration
Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Fast day — no meat; dairy and eggs are allowed.
Commemorated today
- Martyr Eusignius of AntiochMartyr
- Holy Hieromartyr Fabian, Pope of Rome (250)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 250
- Righteous Nonna (374), Mother of St Gregory the TheologianRighteous · d. 374
- Our Righteous Father Eugene of AitolaRighteous
- Euthymios, Patriarch of ConstantinopleHierarch
- Christos the New Martyr of PrevezisNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
- Oswald the Martyr, King of NorthumbriaMartyr
Appointed readings
- 1 Peter 1:1–25, 2:1–10
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on August 5 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 18 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.