Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Greatmartyr Anastasia and Companions life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Greatmartyr Anastasia, Deliverer from Potions
She entered prisons others preferred not to see, bringing food, medicine, and fellowship to Christians whose suffering the empire tried to hide.
- Era
- Traditionally late third to early fourth century
- Region
- Rome, Sirmium, and the Roman imperial world
- Category
- Greatmartyr and healer
- Feast
- December 22
- Chrysogonos, Theodota, Evodias, & Eutychianus, the MartyrsMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
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.
- The opening of the gates of the Great Church of God
What is known
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.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 22 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 4 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.