Venerable
Dorothea
A venerable woman commemorated in the calendar of the Orthodox Church for her ascetic life.
- Feast
- September 27old style October 10
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Holy Venerable Dorothea is commemorated in the Handbook for Priests, the 1978 edition of the Moscow Patriarchate, on 27 September, that is 10 October in the new style. The sources here say nothing of her life.
The name of Venerable Dorothea is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Church.
Commemorated the same day September 27
Anthim the IberianHieromartyr · Metropolitan of Ungro-WallachiaSep 27
John MarkApostle · Companion of Paul and BarnabasSep 27
Sigebert of East AngliaRight-Believing · King of East AngliaSep 27
Sabbatius of SolovkiVenerable · Co-founder of Solovki MonasterySep 27
Zenas the LawyerApostle · Apostle of the SeventySep 27Caius of MilanSaint · Bishop of MilanSep 27
Peter of KrutitsyHieromartyr · Metropolitan of KrutitsySep 27- Flavian of AntiochSaint · Patriarch of AntiochSep 27
Callistratus of CarthageMartyrSep 27
Aquilina of ZagliveriNew MartyrSep 27
Herman KosolapovHieromartyr · Bishop of VolskSep 27- AdheritusSaintSep 27