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November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Nov. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 24

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 6 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 10.

Feasts

  • Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.

    • Saints

  • Martyr Myrope of Chios, under Decius (251) (see also: December 2)
  • Saint Sisinius the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (c. 325)
  • Venerable Ischyrion, Bishop in Egypt and hermit of Scete.
  • Venerable Helenus, Bishop of Tarsus.
  • Martyr Theodore of Antioch (after 363)
  • Saint Amphilochius of Iconium, Bishop of Iconium (394)
  • Saint Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum, Sicily (690)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome (c. 101) (In the East: Jan 4, Apr 22, Sept 10 and Nov 25)
  • Saint Felicity, a widow martyred with her sons either in Rome or else in North Africa under Decius, buried in Rome (c. 165) (see also: January 25 in the East.)
  • Virgin-martyr Lucretia, in Mérida in the west of Spain (306)
  • Saint Paternian, Bishop of Fano in Italy (c. 343)
  • Saint Clement, first Bishop of Metz in the east of France.
  • Saint Paulinus of Wales (Polin, Pewlin, Paulhen), an Abbot in Wales and disciple of St Illtyd, founder of the monastery of Whitland (c. 505)
  • Saint Columbanus, Irish missionary and founder of Luxeuil Abbey and Bobbio Abbey (615)
  • Saint Wilfetrudis, second Abbess of Nivelles in Belgium, founded by her aunt St Gertrude (c. 670)
  • Venerable Trudo (Trudon, Tron, Trond, Truyen, Trudjen), Abbot (c. 695)
  • Saint Rachildis, an anchoress who lived near the monastery of St Gall in Switzerland (c. 946)
  • Saint Adalbert, a monk at Cassoria in the Abruzzi in Italy, founder of the monastery of St Nicholas on Mt Caramanico near Chieti (c. 1045)
  • Saint Guy of Casauria, a monk at Farfa who became Abbot of Casauria Abbey near Chieti in Italy (1045)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Alexander Nevsky (in schema Alexis), Grand Prince of Novgorod (1263)
  • Saint Dionysius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, "the Wise" (1492)
  • Saint Metrophanes (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh (1703)
  • Saint Anthony of lezeru-Vilcea (1714)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Seraphim (1931)
  • Saint John Vasiliev, Confessor (1932)
  • New Hieromartyr Boris, Bishop of Ivanovo (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Eleazar Spyridonov of Eupatoria, Priest, first rector of the Greek Church of St. Elijah (Yevpatoria) in Crimea (1937)
  • Martyr Alexander Uksusov of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
  • New Martyr Archimandrite Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia, who suffered in Auschwitz, Poland (1942)

    • References

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