Editing Liturgical year (section)

====Other feasts====
Some additional feasts are observed as though they were Great Feasts:
* [[The Protection of the Mother of God]] (October 1), especially among the [[Russian Orthodox]]
* The Feast of [[Saint James the Just]] (October 23)
* The Feast of [[Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki]] (October 26)
* The Feast of the Holy [[Archangels]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] and [[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] (November 8)
* The Feast of [[Saint Nicholas]], the Bishop of [[Myra]] in [[Lycia]] (December 6)
* The Feast of the Conception of [[Saint Mary|Mary]] by Saints [[Joachim]] and [[Saint Anne|Anne]] (December 9)
* The Feast of [[Saint Spiridon]] (December 12)
* The Feast of [[Saint Stephen]] the Deacon (December 27)
* The Feast of [[Saint Basil the Great]] and the [[Circumcision of Christ]] (January 1)
* The Feast of the [[Three Holy Hierarchs]]: [[Basil the Great]], [[Gregory the Theologian]] and [[John Chrysostom]] (January 30)
* The Feast of the [[Forty Martyrs of Sebaste]] (March 9)
* The Feast of [[Saint Patrick]] (March 17)<ref>[[St. Patrick's Day]]</ref>
* The Feast of [[Saint George]] (April 23)
* The Feast of the Holy Emperors [[Constantine I|Constantine]] and [[Helena (Empress)|Helen]] (May 21)
* The [[Nativity of Saint John the Baptist]] (June 24)
* The Feast of [[Saints Peter and Paul]] (June 29)
* The Feast of [[Saint Elijah]] the [[Prophet]] (July 20)
* The Feast of [[Saint Christina of Bolsena]] the Great Martyr (July 24)
* The [[Beheading of St. John the Baptist]] (August 29)
* Beginning of the [[Indiction]]-Ecclesiastical Year (September 1)
* The [[Patron Saint|Patronal Feast]] of a church or monastery

Every day throughout the year commemorates some saint or some event in the lives of [[Christ]] or the [[Theotokos]]. When a feast on the moveable cycle occurs, the feast on the fixed cycle that was set for that calendar day is transferred, with the [[Proper (liturgy)|propers]] of the feast often being chanted at [[Compline]] on the nearest convenient day.