Synaxis of St John the Baptist
Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- The Synaxis of the Venerable and Illustrious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John.Prophet · A synaxis — several kept together life on this site
- New Martyr Athanasius of Attalia (1700)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1700
- Our Venerable Father Cedd, Bishop of Essex and Abbot of Lastingham (664)Hierarch · d. 664
Appointed readings
- Acts 19:1–8
- John 1:29–34
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 7 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 20 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.