Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- St Spyridon the WonderworkerWonderworker life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker of Trimythous
A shepherd who remained simple after becoming a bishop, Spyridon served the poor, confessed the divinity of Christ, and showed that theological truth belongs not only to scholars but to the whole praying Church.
- Era
- c. 270–c. 348
- Region
- Cyprus; relics now venerated on Corfu
- Category
- Shepherd-bishop, Father of the First Ecumenical Council, and wonderworker
- Feast
- December 12
- John (or Joachim), Bishop of ZichniHierarch
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 them at Zichni. 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.
- St Finian of Clonard (549)d. 549
What is known
The title places them at Clonard. The year given is 549.
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
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 12 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 25 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.