1st and 2nd Finding Honorable Head of St John the Baptist
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- First (4th century) and Second (9th century) Findings of the Precious Head of St John the Baptist4th century
- Saint Aethelberht (Ethelbert), first Christian King of Kent (616)d. 616
- Romanos, Prince of Uglich
- Cumine the White, Abbot of IonaMonastic
Appointed readings
- Composite 8 – Isaiah 40, 41, 45, 48, 54
- Composite 9 – Malachi 3, 4
- Composite 3 – Wisdom of Solomon 4, 5
- Luke 7:17–30
- 2 Corinthians 4:6–15
- Matthew 11:2–15
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on February 24 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on March 9 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.