Holy Apostle John the Theologian
Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the TheologianApostle life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
The son of Zebedee who was nicknamed Thunder, who stood at the cross when the others had gone, and who spent a very long old age saying the same short sentence.
- Era
- First century, into extreme old age
- Region
- Galilee, Jerusalem, Ephesus, and the island of Patmos
- Category
- Apostle, Evangelist, and Theologian
- Principal feast for this profile
- The Repose, September 26
- Our Righteous Father Arsenios the Great (449)Righteous · d. 449
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The year given is 449.
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 Emilia (375), mother of Sts Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theoseviad. 375
What is known
The title places them at Nyssa. The year given is 375.
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 John 1:1–7
- John 19:25–27, 21:24–25
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on May 8 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on May 21 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.