Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Unmercenaries and Wonderworkers Cosmas and DamianUnmercenary healer life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian of Asia Minor
These brother physicians treated the sick without demanding payment, revealing medicine as a work of skilled compassion and every gift as something received from God for the service of our neighbour.
- Era
- Date uncertain; traditionally early Christian centuries
- Region
- Asia Minor or Mesopotamia
- Category
- Physicians, wonderworkers, and unmercenaries
- Feast
- November 1
- Holy New Martyr Helen of Sinope (18th century)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · 18th century
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 Sinope. The year given is the 18th 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.
- St Theodota, Mother of Cosmas and Damian
What is known
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.
- David the Righteous of EviaRighteous
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 Evia. 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.
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 1 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on November 14 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.