Apostle Simon the Zealot
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Apostle Simon ZelotesApostle
What is known
An apostle was sent. The word covers the Twelve, the Seventy whom Christ sent ahead of him, and a few others the New Testament names in the same office.
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.
- Holy Martyrs Alphaeus, Philadelphus and Cyprinus of Sicily (251)Martyr · d. 251
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 Sicily. The year given is 251.
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 Isidora the Fool of Tabenna (Egypt) (4th century)4th century
What is known
The title places them at Tabenna. The year given is the 4th 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.
- Blessed Thaïs (Taïsia) of Egypt (4th century)Blessed · 4th century
What is known
Blessed is used in the Slavic tradition both for the fools for Christ and, more loosely, as an honorific for saints whose veneration is local or recent.
The title places them at Egypt. The year given is the 4th 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.
Appointed readings
- 1 John 3:21–4:6 continues in 4
- 1 John 4:11–16
- 1 John 4:20–5:5 continues in 5
- John 21:15–25
- 1 Corinthians 4:9–16
- Matthew 13:54–58
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on May 10 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 23 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.