The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Feast · cross
- 14 September (Roman Catholic Church)
- 14 September (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Thout 17 (Coptic Orthodox Church)
- 14 September (Syriac Orthodox Church)
The raising of the Cross found at Jerusalem. It is a strict fast in the East despite being a Great Feast, and it is the day that displaced John Chrysostom: he died on 14 September 407 and the East moved his commemoration to 13 November rather than let it stand against this.
After The Typikon, ch. 48, the Menaion — 14 September, «Всемі́рное воздви́женїе чⷭ҇тна́гѡ и҆ животворѧ́щагѡ крⷭ҇та̀», p. 141.
Commemorating
- Saint Helena commemorates
- Constantine the Great with
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 — 14 September, «Всемі́рное воздви́женїе чⷭ҇тна́гѡ и҆ животворѧ́щагѡ крⷭ҇та̀», p. 141; 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 I.3, p. 275 — 17e Tout (14 septembre)
- Syriac Orthodox Church — the day, after Liturgical Calendar of the Syriac Orthodox Church
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…