Holy Apostle Jude, Brother of the Lord
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostle Jude, the Brother of the Lord (80)Apostle
What is known
An apostle was sent. The word covers the Twelve, the Seventy whom Christ sent ahead of him, and a few others the New Testament names in the same office.
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.
- Our Holy Father Païsius the Great of Egypt (400)d. 400
What is known
The title places them at Egypt. The year given is 400.
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 ZosimaMartyr
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.
- Our Righteous Father ZenonusRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
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
- Jude 1–10
- Jude 11–16
- Jude 17–25
- John 21:15–25
- Jude 1–10
- John 14:21–24
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 19 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 2 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.