Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Greatmartyr Euphemia
What is known
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.
- Blessed Princess OlgaBlessed life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga
The formidable regent of Kyiv became the first ruler of Rus’ to embrace Christianity, planting a seed her son rejected but her grandson Vladimir would later cultivate across an entire civilization.
- Era
- c. 890–969
- Region
- Kyivan Rus’ and Constantinople
- Category
- Princess, regent, and Equal-to-the-Apostles
- Feast
- July 11
- New Martyrs Nikodemos (1722) and Nektarios (1820)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1722
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 year given is 1722.
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.
- St Sophrony of Essex (1993) (June 28 OC)d. 1993 life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Sophrony of Essex
An artist formed in Moscow, Paris, and Mount Athos became the disciple and biographer of St. Silouan, then founded a monastery in England where theology was lived as prayer, repentance, and hospitality.
- Era
- 1896–1993
- Region
- Russia, France, Mount Athos, and Essex, England
- Category
- Hieromonk, theologian, spiritual elder, and monastic founder
- Feast
- July 11
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on July 11 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 24 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.