Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Appearance of the "Kazan" icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1579)Commemoration of an icon · 1579
What is known
A day kept for a particular icon rather than a person — usually one associated with a deliverance, a healing, or the founding of a monastery.
The year given is 1579.
What is kept is the icon and what the Church remembers of it. There is no life here to tell, and the history of an icon is usually harder to trace than the history of a person.
- Greatmartyr Procopius of Caesarea
What is known
The title places them at Caesarea.
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.
- Venerable Theophilus the Myrrhgusher of MacedoniaMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The title places them at Macedonia.
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 Procopius, Fool for Christ (1303)Fool for Christ · d. 1303
What is known
A fool for Christ took on the appearance of madness on purpose, to refuse the honour the world pays to piety and to say things nobody else could say safely. It is a rare and deliberately unsettling vocation, and the Church has always treated it cautiously.
The year given is 1303.
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 8 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 21 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.