Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Holy Prophet Daniel and Three Holy YouthsProphet
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 Father Dionysius the New of Zakinthos (1624)d. 1624
What is known
The title places them at Zakinthos. The year given is 1624.
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 17 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 30 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.