The Transfiguration
Feast · lord
- 6 August (Roman Catholic Church)
- 6 August (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Mesori 13 (Coptic Orthodox Church)
Commemorating
- Jesus commemorates
- Transfiguration 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 — 6 August, «Ст҃о́е преѡбраже́нїе гдⷭ҇а бг҃а и҆ сп҃са на́шегѡ і҆и҃са хрⷭ҇та̀», p. 733; 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 XVII.3, p. 718 — 13 Mesore (6 août); the rank, after Kalendarium manuale utriusque ecclesiae orientalis et occidentalis (vol. II), II p. 693, «Festa minora similiter septem sunt» — Circumcisionis, primi miraculi, Ingressus in templum, Coenae, Dominica Thomae, Ingressus in Aegyptum, Transfigurationis
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…