Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Venerable Onuphrius the GreatMonastic life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Onuphrius the Great
Hidden for decades in the Egyptian desert, Onuphrius became known only at the end of his earthly life, reminding the Church that a life unseen by the world can remain entirely visible to God.
- Era
- Traditionally fourth or fifth century
- Region
- The Egyptian desert
- Category
- Hermit and Desert Father
- Feast
- June 12
- Peter the Athonite
What is known
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.
- Holy Martyr AntonineMartyr
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.
- John the Soldier of Egypt
What is known
The title places them at Egypt. 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.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 12 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on June 25 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.