Synaxis of saints
Synaxis Synaxis of All Saints of Crete
I–XX века
Synaxis of All the Saints Who Shone Forth in Crete — a joint commemoration established by the Church of Crete honoring all Cretan saints of various eras (Apostle Titus, first bishop of Crete, Hierarch Myron the Wonderworker, martyrs of the Decian and Diocletianic persecutions, Venerable Andrew of Crete, Hierarch Gregory of Sinai, new martyrs of the 1821-1822 Greek Revolution, and others), kept on the movable first Sunday of July.
The Synaxis of All the Saints Who Shone Forth in Crete (Greek: Σύναξη Πάντων τῶν ἐν Κρήτῃ Ἁγίων) is a general celebration of the Church of Crete (autonomous within the Ecumenical Patriarchate) in honor of the island's saints across various eras: the Apostle Titus, first bishop of Crete (own feast August 25), Hierarch Myron the Wonderworker of Crete (August 8), martyrs of the persecutions of Emperors Decius and Diocletian (including the separately described Ten Martyrs of Crete), Venerable Andrew of Crete (own feast July 4), Hierarch Gregory of Sinai, and new martyr-hierarchs of the era of the 1821-1822 Greek Revolution.
The feast is kept on the movable first Sunday of July (falling within July 1-7 each year) — a "special computation" (Greek: Ειδικός υπολογισμός) rather than a fixed calendar date.
IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: the exact named roster of the Synaxis has no single officially fixed list — the available lists are in the nature of a collection rather than a strictly defined canon of names, as honestly noted in Cretan-language sources themselves.
NOTE: the original stub was an unprocessed image caption from pravicon.com for a 1990s Cretan icon — it has been reworked into a coherent description. The previous verification_status "uncertain" with a note that "the exact feast day is unconfirmed" is outdated — the date has been reliably confirmed (the movable first Sunday of July) by official Cretan church sources; updated to "confirmed."