# November 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 23
All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For November 22, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 9.

## Feasts

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

## Saints

* Apostles of the 70 Philemon and Archippus, Martyr Apphia (wife of Philemon and Equal to the Apostles), and St. Onesimus, disciple of Saint Paul (c. 109)
* Martyrs Cecilia, Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus at Rome (c. 230 or 288)
* Martyr Menignus at Parium, the Tanner, by beheading (250)
* Martyrs Stephen, Mark, and Mark at Antioch in Pisidia, by beheading (290)
* Martyr Procopius the Reader at Caesarea in Palestine, by the sword (303)
* Martyr Agapion of Greece (Agapionos the Roman) (304)
* Martyr Agapios of Cappadocia, by the sword.
* Martyr Thaddeus.
* Martyrs Christopher and Euphemia, by the sword.
* Martyrs Thalalaeus and Anthimus, by the sword. (see also: November 19)
* Hieromartyr Sisinius, by the sword. (see also: November 23)
* Venerable Agabbas (Abbas) of Syria (5th century)
* Righteous Michael the Soldier of Potuka, Bulgaria (866)
* Venerable Germanus, founder of the Monastery of the Theotokos Eikosiphinissa, in the Metropolis of Drama, Greece (9th century)
* Saint Clement of Ochrid, Bishop of Ohrid (Achrida), Enlightener of Bulgaria and Wonderworker (916) (see also: July 27)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Martyr Maurus, born of Christian parents in North Africa, he was martyred in Rome under Numerian.
* Saint Pragmatius, Bishop of Autun in France (c. 520)
* Saint Deyniolen (Deiniol the Younger), Abbot of Bangor Abbey in Wales (621)
* Saint Sabinian, Third Abbot of Moutier-Saint-Chaffre in France (c. 720)
* Saint Christian, thirty-seventh Bishop of Auxerre in France (c. 873)
* Saint Tigridia (Trigidia), Abbess of San Salvador de Oña, which her father Count Sancho Garcia founded for her to direct (c. 925)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Blessed Yaropolk-Peter, Prince of Vladimir in Volhynia (1086)
* Martyrdom of St. Michael of Tver, Prince of Tver (1318)
* Venerable Callistus II Xanothopoulos, Hesychast monk of Mount Athos and Patriarch of Constantinople (1397)
* Venerable Iakovos (Tsalikis) of Euboea the New Ascetic, Igumen of the Monastery of Saint David the Elder in Euboea (1991)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Vladimir Ryasensky of Tver, Priest (1932)
* New Hieromartyr Joasaph (Zhevakhov), Bishop of Mogilev (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Gerasimus (Mochalov), Hieromonk of the Zosima Hermitage, Smolensk (1937)
* New Monk-martyrs Eutychius (Didenko), Abner (Sinitsyn), Sava (Suslov), and Mark (Makhrov), of Optina Monastery, and with them Martyr Boris Kozlov (1937)
* New Hieromartyrs Elias Gromoglasov, and Alexis Benemansky, Protopresbyters of Ryazan, and Athanasius Milov, Priest of Chimkent (1937)
* New Hieromartyrs John Smirnov, Basil Bov, Paul Evdokimov, Jacob Sokolov, Theodore Gusiev, John Baranov, Priests (1937)
* Venerable Paraskeva (Matieshina), Confessor (1953)

## Icon gallery

* Apostles Philemon and Apphia.
* St. Cecilia of Rome.
* Martyr Procopius the Reader, at Caesarea in Palestine.
* Saint Clement of Ochrid.
* St. Yaropolk-Peter, Prince of Vladimir in Volhynia.
* St. Michael of Tver.
* New Hieromartyr Joasaph (Zhevakhov), Bishop of Mogilev.
* New Hieromartyr Elias Gromoglasov.