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
What is known
The title places them at Precious Head. The year given is the 4th century.
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.
- Saint Aethelberht (Ethelbert), first Christian King of Kent (616)d. 616
What is known
The title places them at Kent. The year given is 616.
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.
- Romanos, Prince of Uglich
What is known
The title places them at Uglich. 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.
- Cumine the White, Abbot of IonaMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The title places them at Iona. 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.
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.