# November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 24
All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 6 by Eastern 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) (see also: Jan 4, Apr 22, Sept 10 and Nov 25 - East)
* 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 - 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) (see also: November 21)
* Saint Wilfetrudis, second Abbess of Nivelles in Belgium, founded by her aunt St Gertrude (c. 670)
* Venerable Trudo (Trudon, Tron, Trond, Truyen, Trudjen), Abbot, of Zirkingen (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 Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122) (see also: August 28 )
* Burial of 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, Romania (1714)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Thievart), Hieromonk, of Moscow (1931)
* Saint John Vasiliev, Confessor (1932)
* New Hieromartyr Boris (Voskoboinikov), 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 Hieomartyr Archimandrite Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia, who suffered in Auschwitz, Poland (1942)

## Icon gallery

* St Amphilochius of Iconium.
* St Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum.
* St Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles.
* St Clément of Metz.
* St Columbanus.
* St Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod.
* Two 1788 reliquaries of St Dionysius I (Panagia Ikosifinissa Monastery, Greece)
* Saint Metrophanes of Voronezh.
* New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Thievart), Hieromonk, of Moscow.
* New Martyr Archimandrite Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia.