# November 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 13
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 25 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For November 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 30.

## Saints

* Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite (Achias) (960 BC)
* Martyr Arsacius (Arsakios), by the sword.
* Martyrs Anthony, Zevinus, Germanus, Nicephorus and virgin-martyr Maratho, under Diocletian (c. 286–305) (see also: November 13)
* Venerable Martin the Merciful (Martin of Tours), Bishop of Tours (397) (see also: October 12, November 11, July 4)
* Venerable Nilus the Faster, of Sinai (451)
* Saint John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria (c. 616–620)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Rufus of Avignon, venerated as the first Bishop of Avignon in France (c. 200)
* Saint Renatus (René), Bishop of Angers in France, and by tradition of Sorrento in the south of Italy (c. 422)
* Saint Evodius, Bishop of Le Puy in France (c. 560)
* Saint Emilian of Cogolla, Hermit, of Vergegio in Spain (574)
* Saint Machar (Macharius, Mochumna), Bishop of Aberdeen (6th century)
* Saint Sinnell of Cleenish (Senilis), Ireland (6th century)
* Saint Himerius (Imier), a hermit in the Jura in Switzerland, now called after him Immertal, Val-Saint-Imier (c. 610)
* Saint Cummian Fada (Cumianus), a monk at Clonfert, who founded the monastery of Kilcummin (662)
* Saint Cunibert, Bishop of Cologne in Germany, an untiring builder of churches and monasteries (c. 663)
* Saint Cadwaladr (Catuvelladurus), King of the Welsh (664)
* Saint Paternus, born in Brittany, he was a monk at Cessier and then at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif near Sens in France, murdered by evildoers (c. 726)
* Saint Lebuinus (Liafwine, Leafwine), Apostle of the Frisians and patron of Deventer (c. 773)
* Saint Namphasius (Namphrase), a hermit near Marcillac in France, after a military career (c. 800)
* Saint Ymar, a monk at the monastery of Reculver in Kent in England, martyred by the Danes (c. 830)
* Saints Benedict, John, Matthew, Isaac and Christinus (Christian), monks from Italy who followed St Adalbert of Prague, murdered at their monastery near Gnesen, Poland (1005)
* Saint Astericus of Pannonhalma (Astricus, Ascrick), first Abbot of Břevnov Monastery, then first Abbot of Pannonhalma, and Archbishop of Kalocsa (c. 1035)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Leontius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 1143)
* Blessed John "the Hairy", Fool-for-Christ, of Rostov (1580)
* Venerable Nilus the Myrrh-gusher, of Mount Athos (1651)
* New Martyr Sabbas Nigdelis the Samoladan, beheaded at Koutzouk-Karamani, Constantinople, buried in Eğri Kapı ("Crooked Gate") (1726)
* New Martyr Nicholas of Six Marmara, at Constantinople (1732)
* New Martyrs and Confessors of Năsăud, Romania (1763):
   * Athanasius Todoran, Basil Dumitru, Gregory Manu, and Basil Oichi.

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Alexander Adrianov, priest of the Ekaterinburg Diocese (1918)
* New Hieromartyrs Constantine Uspensky, Vladimir Krasnovsky, Alexander Archangelsky, Matthew Aloin and Demetrius Rozanov, Priests (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Boris (1942)

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Mother of God "Kykkiotissa" ("The Merciful", "Milostivaya"), from Kykkos Monastery on Cyprus. (see also: December 26 )
* Commemoration of the miracle (1718) of Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker (348), when the Latins wanted to place their own altar in his church on Corfu.
* Repose of Righteous Cosmas of Birsk (1882)
* Commemoration of the righteous monks and laymen buried at Optina Monastery, including:
   * Virgin maiden Barbara (1900);
   * Hieromonk Basil; Riassaphore-monks Trophimus and Therapontus (1993);
   * the youth George (1994)

## Icon gallery

* Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite.
* St. Martin the Merciful (Martin of Tours).
* Venerable Nilus the Faster, of Sinai.
* Blessed John "the Hairy", Fool-for-Christ, of Rostov.
* St. Lebuinus (Liafwine, Leafwine), Apostle of the Frisians.
* Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful". (Mosaic icon from Kykkos Monastery, Cyprus).