Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Hieromartyr Hierotheus, Bishop of AthensHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
The title places them at Athens.
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 Ammon of Egypt (4th c)
What is known
The title places them at Egypt.
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.
- Uncovering of the relics of Gurias of Kazan and Varsanuphy of TverUncovering of relics
What is known
An uncovering is the finding of relics that had been lost, hidden in a persecution, or simply forgotten.
The title places it at Kazan.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- Domnina the Martyr and her daughtersMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
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 the HermitMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
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.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on October 4 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 17 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.