The Dormition of the Theotokos
Feast · theotokos
- 15 August (Roman Catholic Church)
- 15 August (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Tobi 21 (Coptic Orthodox Church)
The falling-asleep of the Mother of God, kept after a fourteen-day fast. Rome keeps the same day as the Assumption, a solemnity and a holy day of obligation.
After The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 15 August, «Оу҆спе́нїе прест҃ы́ѧ сла́вныѧ влⷣчцы на́шеѧ бцⷣы, и҆ приснодв҃ы мр҃і́и», p. 750.
Commemorating
- Mary, mother of Jesus commemorates
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 — 15 August, «Оу҆спе́нїе прест҃ы́ѧ сла́вныѧ влⷣчцы на́шеѧ бцⷣы, и҆ приснодв҃ы мр҃і́и», p. 750; the rank, after A Manual of the Orthodox Church's Divine Services, pp. 34-35, The Twelve Feasts
- Coptic Orthodox Church — the day, after Le Synaxaire arabe jacobite (rédaction copte), PO XI.5, p. 621 — 21 Toubeh (16 janvier)
Glosses
- The Twelve Great Feasts, and the one that is not among them The Byzantine year is framed by twelve feasts — the Dodekaorton — running from the Nativity of the Theotokos on 8 September to her Dormition on 15 August, some fixed to a date and some moving with Pascha. They are not…