SAINTS & FEASTS
Of the Armenian Orthodox Church
Of the Armenian Orthodox Church
Saints and Feasts (According to the Liturgical Calendar of the Armenian Apostolic Church)
The Liturgical Calendar of the Armenian Church is divided into three categories:
I. Dominical Feasts
II. Days of Fasting/Abstinence
III. Feasts of the Saints
I. Dominical Feasts
Dominical feasts are divided into three groups:
A. Feasts of Christ
1. Theophany
2. Transfiguration
3. Resurrection
Celebrations related to the resurrection of Christ include: The Resurrection of Lazarus, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, the 40-day period from Easter Sunday to Ascension, and Pentecost (10 days after Ascension)
B. Feasts of the Holy Mother of God (“Sourp Asdvadzadzin,” “Theotokos”)
C. Feasts of the Holy Cross & Feasts of the Holy Church
1. Feasts of the Holy Cross
2. Feasts of the Holy Church
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Fixed feast days in the Armenian Church Calendar:
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II. Fasting or Abstinence days
There are approximately 160 fasting days prescribed by the Armenian Apostolic Church. Fasting days are classified as follows:
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III. Feasts of the Saints
January–February
March–April–May
June–July–August
September – October
November–December
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There are two kinds of fasting: 1) abstinence from meat and animal products – “bahk” and 2) total abstinence – “dzom”.
Here we have listed merely those saints that our Sunday School students should be familiar with. In the Armenian Church, saints are commemorated on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Normally more than one saint is commemorated on a given day.
Source: Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia
www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org
06 January 2024 – Nativity and Epiphany
13 January 2024 – Feast of the Naming of Jesus Christ
15 January 2024 – Birth of John the Baptist
27 January 2024 – Saint Sarkis
8 February 2024 – Saint Vartanants
11 February 2024 – Great Lent
14 February 2024 – Presentation of of the Lord to the Temple
6 March 2024 – Median Day of Lent
16 March 2024 – Saint Gregory the Illuminator’s Entry to the pit
24 March 2024 – Palm Sunday
31 March 2024 – Easter
24 April 2024 – Holy Martyrs’ Day of the 1915 Armenian Genocide
28 April 2024 – Apparition of the Holy Cross
9 May 2024 – Ascension
19 May 2024 – Pentecost
27 May 2024 – Saints Hripsimiants
28 May 2024 – Saints Gayaniants
30 May 2024 – Saint John the Baptist
1 June 2024 – Saint Gregory the Illuminator’s Delivery from the pit
2 June 2024 – Feast of Holy Etchmiadzin
15 June 2024 – Discovery of the Relics of Saint Gregory the Illuminator
20 June 2024 – Saint Sahag and Saint Mesrob
7 July 2024 – Feast of the Transfiguration
18 August 2024 – Assumption of the Holy Mother of God
15 September 2024 – Exaltation of the Holy Cross
28 September 2024 – Saint George
29 September 2024 – Holy Cross of Varak
12 October 2024 – Holy Translators
27 October 2024 – Discovery of the Cross
02 November 2024 – Feast of All Saints
9 November 2024 – Holy Archangels Gabriel and Michael
17 November 2024 – Start of 50 days Lent to Christmas
30 November 2024 – Saints Thaddeus and Bartholomew
14 December 2024 – Saint Hagop (James) of Nisibis
23 December 2024 – Saint David the Prophet
24 December 2024 – Saint Stephen the Protomartyr
26 December 2024 – Saint Peter and Saint Paul