Commemorated today
- Venerable Benedict of NursiaMonastic life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Benedict of Nursia
The father of Western monasticism formed a school of the Lord’s service in which prayer, work, stability, restraint, and hospitality could make an ordinary community a path to holiness.
- Era
- c. 480–c. 547
- Region
- Central Italy
- Category
- Monk, abbot, monastic legislator, and wonderworker
- Feast
- March 14
- St Theognostus, Metropolitan of Kiev (1353)Hierarch · d. 1353
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 Kiev. The year given is 1353.
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.
- Euschemon the Confessor, Bishop of LampasakosConfessor — 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.
The title places them at Lampasakos. 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 14 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on March 27 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.