Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostle James, Son of Alphaeus.Apostle
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.
- Repose of St Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Confessor (1925)Confessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed · Repose · 1925 life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Enlightener of North America
He helped a diverse missionary diocese imagine a genuinely local Orthodox Church, then returned to Russia and bore the patriarchal cross amid revolution, civil war, famine, imprisonment, and relentless state pressure.
- Era
- 1865–1925
- Region
- Russia and North America
- Category
- Missionary hierarch, patriarch, and confessor
- Feast
- April 7; also October 9, the anniversary of his glorification
- Saints Andronicus and Athanasia (5th century)5th century
What is known
The year given is the 5th 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.
- Holy and Righteous Abraham and LotRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
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 Stephen the Blind, Prince of Serbia (1476)d. 1476
What is known
The title places them at Serbia. The year given is 1476.
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.
- Holy Hieromartyr Denis (Dionysius), first Bishop of Paris (c. 258)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. c. 258
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 Paris. The year given is about 258.
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.
- Poplia the Confessor of AntiochConfessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed
What is known
A confessor suffered for the faith and lived: imprisoned, exiled, tortured, stripped of office. The Church honours the witness without requiring the death.
The title places them at Antioch. 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
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3 continues in 6
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:1–9
- Hebrews 7:26–8:2 continues in 8
- John 10:9–16
- 1 Corinthians 4:9–16
- Matthew 9:36–10:8 continues in 10
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on October 9 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 22 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.