Commemorated today
- Hieromartyr Methodius, Bishop of PatarHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Patar.
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 Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)Hierarch · d. 1363
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Constantinople. The year given is 1363.
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.
- Blessed Studios (5th century)Blessed · 5th century
What is known
Blessed is used in the Slavic tradition both for the fools for Christ and, more loosely, as an honorific for saints whose veneration is local or recent.
The year given is the 5th century.
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.
- Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Nicholas Cabasilas
Without withdrawing permanently from cities, politics, and ordinary society, Nicholas taught that life in Christ is opened to every baptized person through the mysteries of the Church.
- Era
- c. 1322–after 1391
- Region
- Thessalonica and Constantinople
- Category
- Lay theologian, spiritual writer, and teacher of the sacramental life
- Feast
- June 20
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 20 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 3 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.