Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Venerable Pachomius the GreatMonastic life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Pachomius the Great
The kindness Christians showed a frightened conscript helped lead Pachomius to Christ; he later built communities where prayer, work, obedience, and shared possessions made that same love visible.
- Era
- c. 292–346 or 348
- Region
- Upper Egypt
- Category
- Desert Father and founder of cenobitic monasticism
- Feast
- May 15
- Our Father among the Saints Achillius, Bishop of Larissa (330)Hierarch · d. 330
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 Larissa. The year given is 330.
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.
- Slain Crown Prince Dimitry of Moscow
What is known
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.
- Placing of the Honorable Head of the Apostle TitusApostle
What is known
Kept in the Greek tradition.
This is a feast of the Church rather than the commemoration of a person, so there is no life behind it to tell.
- Barbaros the Myrrhbearer of Kerkyra
What is known
The title places them at Kerkyra. 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.
- Andrew the Hermit & WonderworkerMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
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 15 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 28 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.