Exaltation (Elevation) of the Precious Cross
Great Feast. One of the Twelve Great Feasts of the Church year.
Fast day — no meat, dairy, fish, wine or oil.
Commemorated today
- The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross
- St Placilla the Empress (385 or 386)
- Holy New Martyr Macarius of Thessalonica (1527)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1527
- Commemoration of the 6th Ecumenical CouncilA synaxis — several kept together
Appointed readings
- Exodus 15:22–16:1
- Proverbs 3:11–18
- Isaiah 60:11–16
- John 12:28–36
- 1 Corinthians 1:18–24
- John 19:6–11, 13–20, 25–28, 30–35
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on September 14 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 27 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.