Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- St Cyril of Alexandria life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Cyril of Alexandria
In a turbulent age, Cyril defended the Church’s confession that the one born of the Virgin Mary is truly God the Word made flesh—one Lord Jesus Christ, not two divided subjects.
- Era
- c. 376–444
- Region
- Alexandria, Egypt, and Ephesus
- Category
- Hierarch, Church Father, and defender of the title Theotokos
- Feast
- June 9; also commemorated with St. Athanasius on January 18
- St Columba of Iona (597)d. 597 life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Columba of Iona
Scholar, abbot, missionary, and exile, Columba crossed the sea from Ireland and built on Iona a community from which the Gospel travelled throughout northern Britain.
- Era
- 521–597
- Region
- Ireland, Iona, and northern Britain
- Category
- Monk, abbot, missionary, and Enlightener of Scotland
- Feast
- June 9
- Venerable Kirill of BelozerskMonastic
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.
The title places them at Belozersk.
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.
- 3 Virgin-martyrs of ChiosMartyr
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.
The title places them at Chios. Kept in the Greek tradition.
They are kept together rather than separately, and for most of them the number, the place and the manner of death are the whole of what is recorded.
- 5 Nuns beheaded in Persia: Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, & EnmathaMonastic
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.
The title places them at Persia. Kept in the Greek tradition.
They are kept together rather than separately, and for most of them the number, the place and the manner of death are the whole of what is recorded.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 9 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on June 22 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.