Repose of St. John of Kronstadt
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908)Repose · 1908 life on this site
The life we have written
Saint John of Kronstadt
Serving a naval city marked by poverty, addiction, and displacement, John placed the Eucharist at the centre of parish life and insisted that no person in a cellar or tenement was a stranger to Christ.
- Era
- 1829–1908
- Region
- Northern Russia and Kronstadt near Saint Petersburg
- Category
- Married priest, pastor, spiritual writer, and wonderworker
- Feast
- December 20
- Forefeast of Nativity
What is known
This is a feast of the Church rather than the commemoration of a person, so there is no life behind it to tell.
- Hieromartyr Ignatius the GodbearerHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith life on this site
The life we have written
Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer of Antioch
A bishop carried toward execution wrote seven letters that still reveal the Church’s early faith in the Incarnation, the Eucharist, visible unity, and love stronger than death.
- Era
- Late first and early second centuries
- Region
- Antioch, Asia Minor, and Rome
- Category
- Apostolic father, hierarch, and martyr
- Feast
- December 20
- Our Righteous Father Philogonius, Bishop of AntiochHierarch
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 Antioch.
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.
- John the New Martyr of ThassosNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution life on this site
The life we have written
Saint John of Kronstadt
Serving a naval city marked by poverty, addiction, and displacement, John placed the Eucharist at the centre of parish life and insisted that no person in a cellar or tenement was a stranger to Christ.
- Era
- 1829–1908
- Region
- Northern Russia and Kronstadt near Saint Petersburg
- Category
- Married priest, pastor, spiritual writer, and wonderworker
- Feast
- December 20
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 20 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 2 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.