Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Dormition Righteous Anna, Mother of TheotokosRighteous
What is known
One of the Twelve Great Feasts: the falling asleep of the Theotokos, preceded by a two-week fast.
This is a feast of the Church rather than the commemoration of a person, so there is no life behind it to tell.
- Commemoration of the holy 165 Fathers of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (553)A synaxis — several kept together · 553
What is known
A synaxis is an assembly: a day on which a group is kept together rather than one by one. It often falls the day after a great feast, honouring those who stood closest to it.
The year given is 553.
What is kept is the council and what it settled, rather than the life of any one of the fathers who sat at it.
- St Olympias the Deaconess (408)d. 408
What is known
The year given is 408.
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.
- Eupraxia & Julia the Righteous of TabennaRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The title places them at Tabenna. 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.
- Gregory Kallidis, Metropolitan of HeracleaHierarch
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 Heraclea. 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 25 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 7 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.