Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Apostles Carpus and Alphaeus of the SeventyApostle
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.
- Greatmartyr George the New at Sofia
What is known
The title places them at Sofia.
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.
- Saint Augustine of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (c. 605)d. c. 605
What is known
The title places them at Canterbury. The year given is about 605.
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 New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (1794)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1794
What is known
A new martyr died in one of the later persecutions rather than the Roman ones — most often under Ottoman rule, or in the twentieth century under Soviet and other modern regimes. The word new distinguishes the era, not the manner.
The title places them at Thessalonica. The year given is 1794.
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 26 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on June 8 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.