Feasts and Saints

(†) Holy Trinity

Orthodox Calendar – The Holy Trinty On the day after every Great Feast, the Orthodox Church honors the one through whom the Feast is made possible. On the day following the Nativity of the Lord, for example, we celebrate the Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos (December 26). On the day after Theophany, we commemorate…

Jun 1, 2026basilica.ro

Descent of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost); 8th Sunday after Pascha

Orthodox Calendar – Descent of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost) In the Church’s annual liturgical cycle, Pentecost is “the last and great day.” It is the celebration by the Church of the coming of the Holy Spirit as the end—the achievement and fulfillment—of the entire history of salvation. For the same reason, however, it is also…

May 31, 2026basilica.ro

Venerable Isaac; Barlaam the Monk of Caesarea (Commemoration of the departed – Memorial Saturday)

Orthodox Calendar, May 30 Saint Isaac lived during the fourth century, received monastic tonsure and pursued ascetic labors in the desert. During the reign of the emperor Valens (364-378), a zealous adherent of the Arian heresy, there was a persecution of the Orthodox, and churches were closed and destroyed. Hearing of the persecution, Saint Isaac…

May 30, 2026basilica.ro

Leavetaking of the Ascension of our Lord; Virginmartyr Theodosia of Tyre; Hieromartyr Olivian (Fish allowed)

Orthodox Calendar, May 29 Saint Theodosia of Tyre lived during the third and fourth centuries. Once, during a persecution against Christians, which had already lasted for five years, the seventeen-year-old Theodosia went up to condemned Christian prisoners in the Praetorium in Caesarea, Palestine. It was the day of Holy Pascha, and the martyrs spoke about…

May 29, 2026basilica.ro

St. Eutychius the Bishop of Melitene; St. Nicetas the Bishop of Chalcedon

Orthodox Calendar, May 28 St. Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene The Hieromartyr Eutychius, Bishop of Melitene, was a co-worker with the Holy Apostles, and he suffered for Christ in the city of Melitene during the first century. Troparion — Tone 4 By sharing in the ways of the Apostles, / you became a successor to their…

May 28, 2026basilica.ro

Martyr Julius the Veteran; Hieromartyr Therapon the Bishop of Sardis; St. John the Russian and Confessor (Fish allowed)

Orthodox Calendar, May 27 Martyr Julius the Veteran He lived in the 3rd-4th centuries, being a contemporary of Saints Pasicratus and Valentine. He received martyrdom at the time of the Great Persecution under Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. In year 304, he was brought to trial before the local prefect, named Maximus. The prefect Maximus was…

May 27, 2026basilica.ro

Apostles of the Seventy: Carpus & Alphaeus; Holy Martyrs Abercius and Helen

Orthodox Calendar, May 26 Sts. Carpus and Alphaeus Saint Carpus was one of the Seventy Apostles chosen and sent forth to preach by Christ (Luke 10:1). He was bishop of Verria in Macedonia. The Holy Apostle Alphaeus of the Seventy came from the Galilean city of Capernaum and was the father of the Apostles James…

May 26, 2026basilica.ro

† Third Finding of the Honorable Head of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John

Orthodox Calendar, May 25 The Third Discovery of the Venerable Head of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John occurred in about the year 850. The head of Saint John the Forerunner was found in the city of Emesia during a time of unrest at Constantinople connected with the exile of Saint John Chrysostom (November…

May 25, 2026basilica.ro

St. Blandina of Iași; Venerable Simeon of the Wonderful Mountain; 7th Sunday after Easter (of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council)

Orthodox Calendar, May 24 Saint Blandina the Confessor of Iași The Servant of God, Blandina Gobjilă, was born on February 24, 1906, in the village of Grușenți-Chelmești in Bessarabia, to devout parents, the priest Zaharia and Serafima, who from her infancy planted in her heart humility and love for the holy services. Therefore, with great…

May 24, 2026basilica.ro

St. Michael the Confessor the Bishop of Synnada; Myrrh-Bearing Mary of Clopas

Orthodox Calendar, May 23 Saint Michael the Confessor From his youth he longed for the monastic life and was sent by Patriarch Tarasius (784-806) to a monastery on the coast of the Black Sea. Saint Theophylactus (March 8), the future Bishop of Nicomedia also entered the monastery together with him. At the monastery both monks…

May 23, 2026basilica.ro

Martyrs Basiliscus and Marcellus; Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Second Ecumenical Council (Fish allowed)

Orthodox Calendar, May 22 Holy Martyr Basiliscus He was a nephew of the Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit (February 17), and he suffered together with his brothers Eutropius and Kleonikos during the persecution of the emperor Maximian Galerius (305-311). The holy martyrs Kleonikos and Eutropius (March 3) were crucified, but the martyr Basiliscus was sent…

May 22, 2026basilica.ro