Synaxis of Archangel Michael and the Bodiless Powers
Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Synaxis of the Chief Captains of the Heavenly Host, Michael and Gabriel, and of the other Bodiless Powers of HeavenA synaxis — several kept together
What is known
A synaxis is an assembly: a day on which a group is kept together rather than one by one. It often falls the day after a great feast, honouring those who stood closest to it.
A synaxis is an assembly: a day that gathers a group together, or that honours those who stood closest to a feast kept the day before. What survives of each of them varies, and for most it is very little.
Appointed readings
- Joshua 5:13–15
- Judges 6:2, 7, 11–24
- Isaiah 14:7–20
- Matthew 13:24–30, 36–43
- Hebrews 2:2–10
- Luke 10:16–21
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 8 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on November 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.