11 September 2034, Monday (29.08 according to the old style)
Beheading of St John the Baptist
This is the only feast of the year on which a strict fast is kept. The Church remembers neither a victory nor a miracle, but a murder — and still calls the day a feast. John the Baptist had rebuked the ruler Herod Antipas for …
More about Beheading of St John the Baptist →Saints commemorated
- Prophet, Forerunner St. John the Baptist, Forerunner of the Lord кон. I в. до Р.Х. — ок. 32 г. по Р.Х.
- Martyr Sabina of Rome † ок. 125
- Righteous Theodora of Vasta (Arcadia) IX век (датировка спорна — источники называют период от III до XII века)