Founding of Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre) at Jerusalem (335)d. 335
What is known
The title places it at Founding. The year given is 335.
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.
- Holy Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion (1st c. )Hieromartyr — 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.
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 Great Martyr Ketevan, Queen of Georgia (1624)Great Martyr · d. 1624
What is known
A great martyr is one whose sufferings were unusually prolonged or public, and whose veneration spread widely and early. The title marks the scale of what was endured and of the honour that followed, not a higher rank in heaven.
The title places them at Georgia. The year given is 1624.
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.
- Aristides the Philosopher
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.
- Hierotheos the Righteous of Iveron Monastery, Mount AthosRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The title places them at Iveron Monastery. 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
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on September 13 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 26 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.