Nativity of St John the Baptist
Great Feast. A feast of the Lord or of the Theotokos.
Commemorated today
- Nativity of St John the Baptist
- Synaxis of Sts Zacharias and ElisabethA synaxis — several kept together
- Holy Martyrs Orentius, Pharnacius, Eros, Firmus, Firminus, Cyriacus and Longinus (3rd century)Martyr · 3rd century
- Athanasios Parios
- Panagiotis the New MartyrNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
Appointed readings
- Composite 10 – Genesis 17:15–17, 19; 18:11–14; 21:1–8
- Composite 11 – Judges 13:2–8, 13–14, 17–18, 21
- Composite 8 – Isaiah 40, 41, 45, 48, 54
- Luke 1:24–25, 57–68, 76, 80
- Romans 13:11–14:4
- Luke 1:1–25, 57–68, 76, 80
- Luke 1:1–15, 57–68, 76, 80
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 24 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 7 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.