John Chrysostom
Feast · hierarch
- 13 September (Roman Catholic Church)
- 13 November (Eastern Orthodox Church)
He died on 14 September 407, but that is the Exaltation of the Cross, so the East keeps him on 13 November instead. Rome kept 27 January — the day his relics came back to Constantinople in 438 — until 1969, when it moved him to 13 September, the eve of the same feast that had displaced him in the East.
After New Advent (Fathers and Catholic Encyclopedia).
Commemorating
- John Chrysostom commemorates
- Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) patronal
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 13 November, «И҆́же во ст҃ы́хъ ѻ҆тца̀ на́шегѡ і҆ѡа́нна, а҆рхїепⷭ҇кпа кѡнстанті́нѧ гра́да, златоꙋ́стагѡ», p. 242
Glosses
- Why a saint's day is the day they died A feast is normally the dies natalis — the day of death, understood as the day of birth into heaven. The custom begins with the martyrs and is visible in the Martyrdom of Polycarp, whose church resolved to gather at…