THE BEHEADING OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST Herod Antipas (son of the elder Herod who slew the children of Bethlehem at the time of Christ’s birth) was ruler of Galilee

THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH YEAR, OR THE BEGINNING OF THE INDICTION The First Ecumenical Council  decreed that the Church year should begin on September 1. The month of September

THE NATIVITY OF THE MOST-HOLY THEOTOKOS The Holy Virgin Mary was born of aged parents, Joachim and Anna. Her father was of the lineage of David, and her mother of

SAINT SILOUAN THE ATHONITE St. Silouan the Athonite was born Simeon Ivanovich Antonov, of Russian Orthodox parents who came from the village of Sovsk in Imperial Russia’s Tambov Governorate. At the age of twenty-seven,

THE EXALTATION OF THE HONORABLE CROSS Two events in connection with the Honorable Cross of Christ are commemorated on this day: first, the finding of the Honorable Cross on Golgotha