Orthodox saints and name days on August 29

Name days on August 29

Ioannis, Giannis, Yiannis, John

Saints and feasts of August 29

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  Beheading of John the Baptist

  Great Feast, Αποτομή Κεφαλής Ιωάννου

  The Church commemorates on August 29 the martyric death of St. John the Forerunner. Imprisoned by Herod Antipas for rebuking his unlawful union with Herodias, John was beheaded at the request of Herodias, made through her daughter, whose dancing had pleased Herod at his birthday feast. Thus the greatest of the prophets sealed his preaching of repentance with his blood.

  Name days: Ioannis, Giannis, Yiannis, John

• Theodora of Thessaloniki

  Holy Woman, Θεοδώρα η εν Θεσσαλονίκη

  Saint Theodora of Thessaloniki, born on Aegina, lived as a nun in Thessaloniki in the ninth century in humility and obedience. On this day the Church remembers her repose.

• Arkadios of Arsinoe

  Hierarch, Αρκάδιος Αρσινόης

  Saint Arkadios was bishop of Arsinoe in Cyprus, remembered as a gentle shepherd and a wonderworker.

• Basil the Macedonian

  Saint, Βασίλειος ο Μακεδών

  Basil I rose from humble origins in Macedonia to become emperor in 867 and founded the Macedonian dynasty. The Greek synaxaria remember him for his building of churches, his legal reforms and his care for the Church.

• Joseph the Sanctified of Samakos

  Venerable, Ιωσήφ ο Ηγιασμένος

  Saint Joseph was born in Crete and became a monk, serving as abbot near Heraklion and caring for the poor and the sick. He reposed in the early sixteenth century and his relics were later carried to Zakynthos, where they are venerated.