Daily Calendar - June 6

The 157th day of the year, 208 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Venerable Simeon the Wonderworker, who was established on Mount Sakrival (590-596); Martyrs Meletius Stratilatus, Stephen, John, Serapion of Egypt, Callinicus the Blessed, Theodore, Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Melito, Sergius, Marcellon, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius, Didymus; Mothers: Susanna, Marcian, Palladias; Infants: Kyriacus, Christianus and with them, many and thousands and two hundred and fifty (11250) (218); The transfer of the holy relics of our venerable father George of the Holy Mountain to Constantinople, and their placement in a larder.

The venerable Simeon the Pillar was born in the year 521 in the Syrian city of Antioch, into the family of God-fearing Christians John and Martha. At the age of six, the boy Simeon went to the desert, where he spent a time in complete solitude. At that time, the saint was protected by an angel in baptism and even provided him with food. Finally, he himself brought the boy to a secluded monastery, whose abbot, the abbot of the pillar, Father John, lovingly accepted the boy.

After some time, the venerable Simeon addressed the elder John with a request: “Give me permission to be a pillar too.” With the blessing of the abbot, the brothers of the monastery built a new pillar for the boy Simeon near his pillar. Father John tonsured the seven-year-old boy a monk and himself raised him to the pillar.

The 11-year-old monk decided to choose a higher pillar for his asceticism, and soon he moved to a pillar with 40 steps to the top. The bishops of Antioch and Seleucia came to the place of the asceticism of Saint Simeon, who ordained the boy monk to the rank of deacon. Then the high priests blessed him for ascending the new pillar, on which the venerable Simeon labored for 8 years.

The venerable Simeon was 75 years old when the Lord announced to him the approaching time of his end.

Born:

1599 — Diego Velázquez, great Spanish painter, court painter to Philip IV. Died in 1660.

1606 — Pierre Corneille, French playwright, representative of classicism. Died in 1684.

1799 — Alexander Pushkin, great Russian poet. Killed in a duel in 1837.

1850 — Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Died in 1918.

1875 — Thomas Mann, great German writer, Nobel Prize laureate. Died in 1955.

1903 — Aram Khachaturian, famous Armenian composer. Died in 1978.

1928 — Giorgi Chikovani, physicist. Died in 1968.

1930 — Iveri Prangishvili, academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

Died:

1941 — Louis Chevrolet, American automobile designer.

1946 — Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate.

1961 — Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist and philosopher.

1968 — Robert Francis Kennedy, American senator, brother of President John F. Kennedy.

Events:

1664 — New Amsterdam was renamed New York.

1815 — The Battle of Waterloo took place (the last defeat of Napoleon).

Commemorative day:

Sweden _ National Day.