Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Greatmartyr Euphemia the All-Praised
What is known
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 Cyprian of Carthage (258)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 258 life on this site
The life we have written
Hieromartyr Cyprian of Carthage
A wealthy rhetorician became a Christian late, a bishop almost immediately, and a martyr after learning to hold together discipline, repentance, mercy, and the visible unity of the Church.
- Era
- Third century, c. 210–258
- Region
- Carthage in Roman North Africa
- Category
- Hierarch, theologian, pastor, and martyr
- Feast
- August 31
- St Ninian, Enlightener of Scotland (432)d. 432
What is known
The title places them at Scotland. The year given is 432.
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 Dorotheos the Solitary of Egypt (4th century)4th century
What is known
The title places them at Egypt. The year given is the 4th 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.
- Sebastiana, Disciple of St. Paul the ApostleApostle
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.
- Melitina the MartyrMartyr
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.
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.
- Edith the Nun of Wilton AbbeyMonastic
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.
The title places them at Wilton Abbey. 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 16 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 29 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.