Commemorated today
- St Gregory the Great (the Dialogist), Pope of Rome (604)Hierarch · d. 604
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 Rome. The year given is 604.
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.
- Venerable Theophanes the ConfessorConfessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed
What is known
A confessor suffered for the faith and lived: imprisoned, exiled, tortured, stripped of office. The Church honours the witness without requiring the death.
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.
- Repose of St Symeon the New Theologian (1021)Repose · 1021 life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Symeon the New Theologian
Symeon insisted that Christian life is more than correct language about a distant God: through repentance, the sacraments, and grace, the believer is called to know the living presence of the Holy Spirit.
- Era
- 949–1022
- Region
- Asia Minor and Constantinople
- Category
- Monk, abbot, mystic, poet, and theologian
- Feast
- March 12
- Phineas, grandson of Prophet AaronProphet
What is known
A prophet in the Orthodox calendar is almost always one of the Old Testament prophets, commemorated by the Church that reads them as speaking of Christ.
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.
- Paul Aurelian, Bishop of BrittanyHierarch
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 Brittany. 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 March 12 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on March 25 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.