September 1 Beginning of Indication The first Ecumenical Council held, in Nicea in the year 325, decreed that the Church…
Commemorated on August 31 Troparion & Kontakion Troparion — Tone 8 Guide of Orthodoxy, teacher of piety and holiness, / luminary…
Commemorated on August 30 Saint Paul IV governed the Church for five years and eight months, then resigned the throne and…
Commemorated on August 30 St. John the Faster governed the Church during the reign of the wicked Emperor Anastasius, the acephalite…
Commemorated on August 30 Alexander participated in the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea, in place of the aged Patriarch Metrophanes. Afterward,…
Commemorated on August 29 Herod Antipas, the son of the Herod who slew the children of Bethlehem at the time of…
Commemorated on August 28 Moses was an Ethiopian by birth. In the world, he was a thief and the leader of…
Commemorated on August 27 Who this Saint was and when he lived is not known. He is greatly venerated on Rhodes…
Commemorated on August 27 Poeman was an Egyptian by birth and a great ascetic of Egypt. As a boy he visited…
Commemorated on August 26 Adrian and Natalia were husband and wife, both of noble and wealthy families from Nicomedia. Adrian was…