Conception of St John the Baptist
Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- The Conception of John the Baptist
- Holy Martyr Iraida (Rais) of Alexandria (308)Martyr · d. 308
- New Martyr John of Epirus (1814)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1814
- Xanthippe & Polyxene the RighteousRighteous
- Nicholas the New MartyrNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
Appointed readings
- Galatians 4:22–31
- Luke 1:5–25
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on September 23 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 6 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.