Leavetaking of Meeting
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Martyr Nicephorus of AntiochMartyr
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 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.
- Relics of St Innocent of IrkutskRelics
What is known
A commemoration attached to a saint's relics rather than to the day of their death.
The title places it at Irkutsk.
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.
- Hieromartyr Peter of Damascus, bishop of Damascus (c. 776)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. c. 776
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Damascus. The year given is about 776.
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.
- Peter of Damascus, Hesychast (12th century)12th century
What is known
The title places them at Damascus. The year given is the 12th 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.
- Markellos, Philagrios, & Pankratios the HieromartyrsHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on 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.
- Teilo, Bishop of LlandaffHierarch
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 Llandaff. 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
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on February 9 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on February 22 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.