Holy Prophet Elijah
Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Holy Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah) (9th c. BC)Prophet
What is known
A prophet in the Orthodox calendar is almost always one of the Old Testament prophets, commemorated by the Church that reads them as speaking of Christ.
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.
- Martyrs Maria (Skobtsova), Dimitri (Klepenin) and those with them, who perished in the Nazi concentration camps (1944-1945)Martyr
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 Nazi.
They are kept together rather than separately, and for most of them the number, the place and the manner of death are the whole of what is recorded.
Appointed readings
- Composite 12 – 3 [1] Kings 17:1–23
- Composite 13 – 3 [1] Kings 18, 19
- Composite 14 – 3 [1] Kings 19:19, 20, 21; 4 [2] Kings 2:1,6–14
- Luke 4:22–30
- James 5:10–20
- Luke 4:22–30
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on July 20 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 2 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.