Greatmartyr Demetrius
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Holy, Glorious and Great Martyr Demetrius the Outpourer of Myrrh (306)Great Martyr · d. 306 life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Greatmartyr Demetrios the Myrrh-Gusher of Thessalonica
The protector of Thessalonica is remembered as a courageous confessor whose martyrdom became a wellspring of hope, healing, and steadfastness for generations.
- Era
- Late third to early fourth century
- Region
- Thessalonica, Macedonia
- Category
- Greatmartyr, myrrh-gusher, and protector of Thessalonica
- Feast
- October 26
- Eata of Hexham
What is known
The title places them at Hexham. 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
- Composite 16 – Isaiah 63:15–64:5, 8–9
- Jeremiah 2:2–12
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- Matthew 10:16–22
- Hebrews 12:6–13, 25–27
- Matthew 8:23–27
- 2 Timothy 2:1–10
- John 15:17–16:2 continues in 16
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on October 26 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on November 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.