Repose of Ven. Sergius of Radonezh
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Our Holy Father Sergius of Radonezh (1392)d. 1392
What is known
The title places them at Radonezh. The year given is 1392.
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 Righteous Mother Euphrosyne (c. 445)Righteous · d. c. 445
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The year given is about 445.
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.
- Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople (447) and the Miracle of the Trisagiond. 447
What is known
The title places it at Great Earthquake. The year given is 447.
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.
- Venerable Dosithea, recluse of the Kiev Caves (1776)Monastic · d. 1776
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 Kiev Caves. The year given is 1776.
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.
- Paphnoutios the Martyr & his 546 Companions in EgyptMartyr
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.
- Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos of EvangelistriaA synaxis — several kept together
What is known
A synaxis is an assembly: a day on which a group is kept together rather than one by one. It often falls the day after a great feast, honouring those who stood closest to it.
Kept in the Greek tradition.
A synaxis is an assembly: a day that gathers a group together, or that honours those who stood closest to a feast kept the day before. What survives of each of them varies, and for most it is very little.
- Finbar the Confessor, First Bishop of CorkConfessor — 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 Cork. 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
- Composite 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Proverbs 10:31–11:12 continues in 11
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Matthew 11:27–30
- Galatians 5:22–6:2 continues in 6
- Luke 6:17–23
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on September 25 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 8 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.