Repose of St John the Theologian
Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist St John the TheologianApostle · Repose life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
The son of Zebedee who was nicknamed Thunder, who stood at the cross when the others had gone, and who spent a very long old age saying the same short sentence.
- Era
- First century, into extreme old age
- Region
- Galilee, Jerusalem, Ephesus, and the island of Patmos
- Category
- Apostle, Evangelist, and Theologian
- Principal feast for this profile
- The Repose, September 26
- Removal of the Honorable Head of Apostle Andrew the First-CalledApostle life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called
The brother who found the Messiah and immediately went to get someone else — and about whose long later life almost nothing can be proved.
- Era
- First century
- Region
- Galilee, Judea, and — by tradition — the shores of the Black Sea and Achaea
- Category
- Apostle and martyr
- Principal feast for this profile
- November 30
Appointed readings
- 1 John 3:21–4:6 continues in 4
- 1 John 4:11–16
- 1 John 4:20–5:5 continues in 5
- John 21:15–25
- 1 John 4:12–19
- John 19:25–27, 21:24–25
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on September 26 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 9 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.