Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Venerable Gerasimus of the JordanMonastic life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Gerasimos of the Jordan
The desert father remembered beside a gentle lion teaches that repentance can correct even religious error and that dominion over creation is restored through holiness rather than force.
- Era
- Fifth century; reposed in 475
- Region
- Lycia, Palestine, and the Jordan Valley
- Category
- Desert Father, hermit, and abbot
- Feast
- March 4
- Right-believing Prince Daniel of MoscowRight-believing prince or ruler
What is known
Right-believing marks a ruler commemorated as Orthodox — usually one who defended the Church, was killed in doing so, or gave up power for the monastic life.
The title places them at Moscow.
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 James the Faster of Phoenecia (6th century)6th century
What is known
The title places them at Phoenecia. 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.
- Paul & his sister Juliana and their Companions
What is known
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.
- Gregory, Bishop of ConstanceHierarch
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 Constance. 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 4 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on March 17 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.