Orthodox calendar: October 5 – the day of remembrance of the prophet Jonahtranslated

19th Week after Pentecost.

Today, October 5, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the prophet. Iona (VIII BC); sschmch. Foki, ep. Sinopian (117); martyr Forecast of the heli-grader (approx. 320); right Peter, former publican (VI); St. Jonah the presbyter, father (IX) of St. Theophan, creator of the canons, and Theodore the Inscribed; blzh. Paraskeva Diveevskaya (1915); St. Jonah Yashezersky (1589-1592); St. Macarius of Zhabynsky, Belevsky miracle worker (1623); sschmch. Theodosius of Braz (1694) (Roman); Cathedral of Tula Saints; sschmch. Benjamin, bishop Romanovsky (1930).

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Prophet Jonah, successor of the prophet Elisha, lived in the 8th century. before the Nativity of Christ. Jonah's mother was the widow from Zarephath of Sidon to whom the prophet Elijah came at the command of God during a famine, and her flour and oil did not run out.

Jonah, at that time a little boy, fell ill, and his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. And Elijah’s widow said, “What is it to me and to you, O man of God? You came to me to remind me of my sins and to kill my son.” And Elijah cried to the Lord: “Lord my God! May the soul of this youth return to him!” And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the lad returned, and he came to life.

One day the Lord commanded Jonah...