Repose of St Jacob Netsvetov, Enlightener of the Peoples of Alaska
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Saint James (Jakov) Netsvetov, Missionary to Alaska (1864)d. 1864
What is known
The year given is 1864.
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.
- Holy Hieromartyrs Hermolaus (305), Hermippus, and Hermocrates at NicomediaHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 305
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Nicomedia. The year given is 305.
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.
- Holy Righteous Martyr Paraskeve (140)Martyr · d. 140
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 year given is 140.
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.
- Prisca the Righteous MartyrMartyr
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.
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.
- Moses the Hungarian
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.
Appointed readings
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3 continues in 6
- 1 John 4:1–6
- 1 John 4:20–5:5 continues in 5
- John 10:9–16
- Philippians 3:7–14
- Mark 10:29–31, 42–45
- Galatians 3:23–4:5 continues in 4
- Mark 5:24–34
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on July 26 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on August 8 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.