September 2026
Commemorated on March 20 (also commemorated on February 26 & the “Sunday of the Samaritan Woman”) St. Photini lived in first century Palestine. She was the Samaritan woman who Christ visited at the well asking her
Latin form of the Greek name Προκοπιος (Prokopios): Greek προκοπη (prokope) = ‘progress, advance’ Saints Procopius and Basil, fellow ascetics, lived about the middle of the eighth century, during the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741), from whom
This Saint was born about the year 350, and was, according to some, from Rome, according to others, from Dacia Pontica (Dobrogea in present-day Romania). He was a learned man who had first served in
Saints Procopius and Basil, fellow ascetics, lived about the middle of the eighth century, during the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741), from whom they suffered many things for the sake of the veneration of
A Greek name Ευδοκια (Eudokia) means ” Good thought ” from ευ ” Good, well ” and δοκεω (dokeo) ” To Think, To Imagine, To Suppose” even ” To Glorify “. This Saint, who was from Heliopolis of Phoenicia (Baalbek in present-day Lebanon),
From ἡσῠ́χῐος (hēsúkhios, “quiet”, “reposeful”). Holy martyr Hesychius lived during the reign of king Maximian in 302. He was the first and the leader in the royal palace and the Senate, because he was magistrianus by office. When
03-04 This Saint, who was from Lycia in Asia Minor, lived there for many years as a hermit, and then went to Palestine. There he built the great Lavra by the Jordan River, where a
These Martyrs, men of high rank in the Roman (Byzantine) army, were taken captive when the city of Amorion in Phrygia fell to the Moslem Arabs in 838, during the reign of Theophilus the Iconoclast.
These holy Martyrs, who came from various lands, were all soldiers under the same general. Taken into custody for their faith in Christ, and at first interrogated by cruel means, they were then stripped of
These Martyrs contested for piety’s sake in Corinth during the reign of the Emperor Valerian (253-260). Apolytikion of Martyr Quadratus of Corinth and the 5 in the Fourth Tone Thy Martyrs, O Lord, in their
Saint Theophanes, who was born in 760, was the son of illustrious parents. Assenting to their demand, he married and became a member of the Emperor’s ceremonial bodyguard. Later, with the consent of his wife,
Saint Symeon the New Theologian Symeon the New Theologian (sometimes spelled “Simeon”) (Greek: Συμεὼν ὁ Νέος Θεολόγος; 949–1022 AD) was a Byzantine Christian monk and poet who was the last of three saints canonized by