Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Holy Martyr Agatha of Palermo in Sicily (251)Martyr · d. 251
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.
The title places them at Palermo. The year given is 251.
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.
- Repose of St Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov (1896)Hierarch · Repose · 1896
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 it at Chernigov. The year given is 1896.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- Our Holy Father Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople (970)Hierarch · d. 970
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 Constantinople. The year given is 970.
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.
- Holy New Martyr Antony of Athens (1774)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1774
What is known
A new martyr died in one of the later persecutions rather than the Roman ones — most often under Ottoman rule, or in the twentieth century under Soviet and other modern regimes. The word new distinguishes the era, not the manner.
The title places them at Athens. The year given is 1774.
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.
- Theodosios of Antioch
What is known
The title places them at Antioch. 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 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Composite 4 – Proverbs 10; Wisdom of Solomon 6, 7, 8, 9
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:9–16
- Hebrews 13:17–21
- Luke 6:17–23
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on February 5 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on February 18 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.