Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Unmercenary Wonderworkers Cosmas and DamianUnmercenary healer life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian of Asia Minor
These brother physicians treated the sick without demanding payment, revealing medicine as a work of skilled compassion and every gift as something received from God for the service of our neighbour.
- Era
- Date uncertain; traditionally early Christian centuries
- Region
- Asia Minor or Mesopotamia
- Category
- Physicians, wonderworkers, and unmercenaries
- Feast
- November 1
- Constantine the New Martyr of CyprusNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
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 Cyprus. 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.
- Aaron and Julius the Martyrs of CaerelonMartyr
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 Caerelon. 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.
- Germanus, Bishop of the Isle of ManHierarch
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 Isle. 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 July 1 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 14 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.