Commemorated today
- Removal of the Sacred Relics of Saint Joachim "Papoulakis" of VatopaidiRelics
What is known
A commemoration attached to a saint's relics rather than to the day of their death.
The title places it at Vatopaidi. Kept in the Greek tradition.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- St Epiphanius, Bishop of CyprusHierarch
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 Cyprus.
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.
- Theodorus the Righteous of CytheraRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The title places them at Cythera. 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 May 12 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 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.