Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Miracle of Archangel Michael at Colossae
What is known
The title places it at Archangel Michael.
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.
- Holy Prophet Zacharias and Righteous Elizabeth (1st century), parents of St John the Forerunner.Prophet · 1st century
What is known
A prophet in the Orthodox calendar is almost always one of the Old Testament prophets, commemorated by the Church that reads them as speaking of Christ.
The year given is the 1st 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.
- St Maxim (Sandovich), martyr of Lemkos, Czechoslovakia (1914) (August 24 OC)Martyr · d. 1914
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.
The title places them at Lemkos. The year given is 1914.
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 Martyr CalodoteMartyr
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.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on September 6 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on September 19 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.