Protection (Pokrov) of the Most-Holy Theotokos
Great Feast. A feast of the Lord or of the Theotokos.
Commemorated today
- The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary life on this site
The life we have written
The Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
The young woman who said yes, and whose whole honour in the Church is a statement about her Son.
- Era
- First century
- Region
- Nazareth in Galilee, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and — by tradition — Ephesus
- Category
- Theotokos; Ever-Virgin; foremost among the saints
- Principal feast for this profile
- The Dormition, August 15
- Holy Apostle Ananias 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.
- St Romanos the Melodist of Constantinople (556)d. 556
What is known
The title places them at Constantinople. The year given is 556.
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.
- Our Holy Father Gregory the Choirmaster (Domestikos) of the Great Lavra (1355)d. 1355
What is known
The title places them at Great Lavra. The year given is 1355.
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 Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks (533)Apostle · d. 533
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.
The title places them at Rheims. The year given is 533.
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.
- John Koukouzelis the Psalti
What is known
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
- Genesis 28:10–17
- Ezekiel 43:27–44:4 continues in 44
- Proverbs 9:1–11
- Luke 1:39–49, 56
- Hebrews 9:1–7
- Luke 10:38–42, 11:27–28
- Acts 9:10–19
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on October 1 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 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.