Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostles Bartholomew and BarnabasApostle life on this site
The life we have written
The Holy Apostle Barnabas
The “son of encouragement” who opened his hand to the poor, opened the Church’s door to a feared convert, and opened space for a young missionary to begin again.
- Era
- First century
- Region
- Jerusalem, Antioch, Asia Minor, and Cyprus
- Category
- Apostle of the Seventy, missionary, and martyr
- Feast
- June 11
- Commemoration of the appearance of the Archangel Gabriel to a monk on Mt Athos, and the revelation of the hymn "It is Truly Meet" (Axion Estin (980)Monastic · d. 980
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 it at Archangel Gabriel. The year given is 980.
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.
- St Luke, Archbishop of SimferopolHierarch life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Luke the Surgeon of Crimea
A pioneering surgeon who became an archbishop under Soviet persecution, Luke treated diseased bodies, confessed Christ publicly, and refused the false choice between disciplined science and living faith.
- Era
- 1877–1961
- Region
- Ukraine, Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, and Crimea
- Category
- Surgeon, archbishop, confessor, and wonderworker
- Feast
- June 11
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 11 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on June 24 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.