Commemorated today
- Venerable Sampson the Hospitable of ConstantinopleMonastic life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople
A physician and priest transformed his home into a refuge for strangers and the sick, teaching that Christian hospitality receives the suffering person as a neighbour rather than a burden.
- Era
- Sixth century; reposed c. 530
- Region
- Rome and Constantinople
- Category
- Physician, priest, hospital founder, and unmercenary
- Feast
- June 27
- St Severus the Priest (6th century)6th century
What is known
The year given is the 6th 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.
- St Joanna the Myrrh-bearer (1st century)1st century
What is known
The year given is the 1st 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.
- Anektos the MartyrMartyr
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.
- Luke the HermitMonastic
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.
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 27 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 10 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.