Annunciation Most Holy Theotokos
Great Feast. One of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church year.
Commemorated today
- The Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary life on this site
The life we have written
The Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
The young woman who said yes, and whose whole honour in the Church is a statement about her Son.
- Era
- First century
- Region
- Nazareth in Galilee, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and — by tradition — Ephesus
- Category
- Theotokos; Ever-Virgin; foremost among the saints
- Principal feast for this profile
- The Dormition, August 15
- New Confessor/Hieromartyr Tikhon, patriarch of Moscow (1925)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 1925
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Moscow. The year given is 1925.
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 25 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on April 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.