Orthodox Saints

[SingleMomMonica]

Yep, we both celebrate St. Herman on the 13th (which was what I meant by “tomorrow” it’s right around midnight here, so tomorrow is a hard to define term), but the OCA celebrates St. Peter on Sept 24th with All Saints of Alaska. The EP today (or tomorrow depending). To be honest I like the idea of a seperate day for him.

I think that St. Herman and St. Peter the Aleut were both Russian Orthodox Christians, so it goes to attest to **the unity of our Orthodox Faith **that even us Greek Orthodox Christians have both of them on our calendar and celebrate Feast Days for them.

I don’t think it matters much about on which day on the calendar they happen to show up on in the different (yet same) Orthodox Church(es).

 

[Nine_Two]

I think that St. Herman and St. Peter the Aleut were both Russian Orthodox Christians, so it goes to attest to **the unity of our Orthodox Faith **that even us Greek Orthodox Christians have both of them on our calendar and celebrate Feast Days for them.

I don’t think it matters much about on which day on the calendar they happen to show up on in the different (yet same) Orthodox Church(es).

Calendar differences are rare, but not unheard of, and as you say it doesn’t matter.

Usually you just use the date assigned by the canonizing Church, but since the OCA, when it canonized him, didn’t give him a specific feast day, I guess the Greeks decided to go ahead and do it, no harm in that. I’m kind of curious when other Orthodox Churches celebrate him now.

 

[Wesley7]

I would think that in the Orthodox tradition we celebrate Orthodox saints and in the Roman Catholic tradition they celebrate saints in communion with the See of Rome.