Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- St Athanasius of Mt Athos (1003) and his six disciplesd. 1003
What is known
The title places them at Mt Athos. The year given is 1003.
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.
- Uncovering of the Relics (1422) of St Sergius of Radonezh (1392)Uncovering of relics · 1422
What is known
An uncovering is the finding of relics that had been lost, hidden in a persecution, or simply forgotten.
The title places it at Radonezh. The year given is 1422.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- Martyrdom of St Elizabeth Romanov and Nun Barbara (1918)Monastic · d. 1918 life on this site
The life we have written
Holy New Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth
Widowed by political violence, Elizabeth did not retreat into privilege or revenge; she founded a community of prayer and skilled mercy, forgave her husband’s killer, and finally suffered death beside those she served.
- Era
- 1864–1918
- Region
- Germany, imperial Russia, Moscow, Alapaevsk, and Jerusalem
- Category
- Grand duchess, monastic founder, servant of mercy, and new martyr
- Feast
- July 5 on the Julian calendar, corresponding to July 18 on the civil calendar
- Our Holy Father the New Martyr Cyprian (1679)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1679
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 1679. Kept in the Slavic 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.
- Righteous Father Lampadus the WonderworkerWonderworker
What is known
Wonderworker records that miracles were attributed to this saint, during life or at the relics afterwards. It is a statement about what the Church received, not a claim this site can check.
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
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3 continues in 6
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- Composite 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Proverbs 10:31–11:12 continues in 11
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Matthew 11:27–30
- Galatians 5:22–6:2 continues in 6
- Luke 6:17–23
- Galatians 5:22–6:2 continues in 6
- Matthew 11:27–30
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on July 5 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 18 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.