daily saints

(†) The Ascension of our Lord (Heroes Day)

Orthodox Calendar – The Ascension of our Lord I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God, and Your God (John 20:17). In these words the Risen Christ described to Mary Magdalene the mystery of His Resurrection. She had to carry this mysterious message to His disciples, “as they mourned and wept”…

May 29, 2025basilica.ro

Great and Holy Thursday (Matins); Hieromartyr Simeon, Bishop in Persia, and those with him

Orthodox Calendar April 17 Great and Holy Thursday Two events shape the liturgy of Great and Holy Thursday: the Last Supper of Christ with His disciples, and the betrayal of Judas. The meaning of both is in love. The Last Supper is the ultimate revelation of God’s redeeming love for man, of love as the…

Apr 17, 2025basilica.ro

Martyr Sava the Goth; Saint Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium (Lazarus Saturday. Memorial Saturday)

Orthodox calendar April 12 Martyr Sava the Goth The Martyr was a Goth who lived during the fourth century. At this time the Arian bishop Wulfilas preached Christianity among the Goths, and Saint Sava was among those who were baptized. Saint Sava led a virtuous life, devout, peaceful, temperate, simple, and quiet. He avoided women,…

Apr 12, 2025basilica.ro

Holy Martyr Victorinus and those with him; Martyrs Theodulus and Agathopodes (Memorial Saturday)

Orthodox Calendar, April 5 Holy Martyr Victorinus and those with him Troparion of Saints Claudius, Diodoros, Victor, Victorinus, Pappios, Serapion, and Nikephoros — Tone 4 Your holy martyrs, O Lord, / through their sufferings have received incorruptible crowns from You, our God. / For having Your strength, they laid low their adversaries, / and shattered…

Apr 5, 2025basilica.ro

Sts. Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople and Luke the New Stylite of Chalcedon

Orthodox Calendar, December 11 Saint Daniel the Stylite He was born in the village of Bethara, near the city of Samosata in Mesopotamia. His mother Martha was childless for a long while and in her prayers she vowed that if she had a child, she would dedicate him to the Lord. Her prayers were heard,…

Dec 11, 2024basilica.ro

Midfeast of Pentecost; Apostle Simon the Zealot (Fish allowed)

Saint Simon was from Cana in Galilee, and was known to the Lord and His Mother. Tradition says that he was the bridegroom at the wedding where the Savior performed His first miracle. After witnessing the miracle of the water which had been turned into wine, he became a zealous follower of Christ. For this…

May 10, 2023basilica.ro

Forefeast of the Procession of the Honorable and Lifegiving Cross of the Lord; Righteous Eudocimus of Cappadocia; Righteous Joseph of Arimathea (The Dormition Fast begins tomorrow); 7th Sunday after Pentecost

Saint Eudocimus, a native of Cappadocia (Asia Minor), lived during the ninth century during the reign of Emperor Theophilus (829-842). He was the son of the pious Christians Basil and Eudokia, an illustrious family known to the emperor. They raised their son “in discipline and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6: 4), planting in his…

Jul 31, 2022Sorin Ioniţe

(†) Holy Pascha; St. Elijah Iorest, Simeon Stephan and Sava Brancovici, metropolitans of Transylvania; St. Joseph the Confessor of Maramureș; Martyrs Cyril, Kindeas and Dasius of Axiopolis

The service of St. Elijah Iorest, Simeon Stephan and Sava Brancovici, metropolitans of Transylvania, and St. Joseph the Confessor of Maramureș is celebrated on the Bright Tuesday.

Apr 26, 2022Iulian Dumitraşcu

Martyr Eupsychius of Caesarea, in Cappadocia; Monkmartyr Bademus (Vadim) of Persia

Holy Martyr Eupsychius He was born in the city of Caesarea in Cappadocia and received a Christian upbringing by his illustrious parents. During the reign of Julian the Apostate (361-363), Saint Eupsychius entered into a Christian marriage. At Caesarea there was a pagan temple to the goddess Fortuna, whom Julian the Apostate revered. As Eupsychius…

Apr 9, 2022Iulian Dumitraşcu

Great and Holy Thursday (Matins) Virginmartyrs Agape, Irene, and Chionia in Thessalonica

Two events shape the liturgy of Great and Holy Thursday: the Last Supper of Christ with His disciples, and the betrayal of Judas. The meaning of both is in love. The Last Supper is the ultimate revelation of God’s redeeming love for man, of love as the very essence of salvation. And the betrayal of…

Apr 16, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

Great and Holy Wednesday (Matins); Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus of the Seventy; Martyr Crescens

On Great and Holy Wednesday, the hymns of the Bridegroom Service remind us of the sinful woman who poured precious ointment on Christ’s head at Simon the leper’s house (Mt. 26:7). The disciples complained about the wasteful extravagance, for the myrrh could have been sold and the money given to the poor. On this same…

Apr 15, 2020basilica.ro