November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 28 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For November 15, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 2.

Saints

• Martyr Demetrius of Thrace, from the village Davoudio (Dabuda), close to town Amapasos (Amapas), by beheading (298)[1][2][3][4][note 2]
• Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias (299), Samonas (306), and Abibus (322), of Edessa.[1][2][4][6][7]
• Saint Quinctian, Bishop of Seleucia (4th century)[1][2][4][8][note 3]
• Martyrs Eupsychios, Nearchos and Karterios.[4][9][note 4] (see also: November 5)
• Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, and Eustochius, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (361)[1][2][4][10][11] (see also: November 16 - West)
• Saint Thomas the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (665-668)[1][2][4][12][13]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Eugene, preached the Gospel with St Denis, Bishop of Paris in France, and was martyred.[14][note 5]
• Saint Felix of Nola, first Bishop of Nola near Naples in Italy, martyred with thirty companions (287)[14][note 6]
• Twenty Martyrs (Fidentian, Valerian, Victoria, etc.) in North Africa.[14][15]
• Saint Luperius, Bishop of Verona and Confessor (6th or 8th century)[14][15]
• Saint Malo (Maclovius, Machutis, Maclou), first Bishop of Aleth (c. 640)[14][16][note 7][note 8] (see also: November 14)
• Saint Desiderius (Didier), who succeeded his own brother, St Rusticus, as Bishop of Cahors in France (655)[14]
• Saint Machudd (Machell), founder of the monastery of Llanfechell in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)[14]
• Saint Paduinus (Pavin), a monk at the monastery of St Vincent in Le Mans in France, then first Abbot of St Mary's near Le Mans (c. 703)[14]
• Saint Arnulf, Bishop of Toul in France (871)[14]
• Saint Findan (Fintan), hermit (879)[14][note 9]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Philip, Abbot of Rabang, Vologda (1457)[1][2][13][17][note 10]
• Venerable Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos (1794)[1][2][18][19][note 11]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Nicholas and Peter Kondarov, priests, Gregory Dolinin[note 12] and Nicetas Almazov, deacons (1937)[2][13][21]

Other commemorations

• Beginning of the Nativity Fast.
• Commemoration of the pious Emperor Justin and Theodora.[22][note 13]
• "Kupyatich" Icon (1180) of the Most Holy Theotokos.[1][2][13][21][23]
• Repose of St. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836)[1][2]
• Repose of Abbot Arsenie Boca of Romania (1989).[1][note 14]

Icon gallery

• 
  Martyr Abibus of Edessa.
• 
  St. Felix of Nola.
• 
  St. Malo (Maclovius), first Bishop of Aleth.
• 
  St. Malo is said to have accompanied Saint Brendan on the latter's famous voyage.
• 
  Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky.
• 
  Abbot Arsenie Boca of Romania.

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. Saint Demetrius was tortured for the sake of Christ by Pomplius the governor in the village of Daodus, and then he was beheaded.[5]
3. He was one of the 318 Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, in Bithynia. He became an ascetic and also a wonderworker. He reposed peacefully.
4. The memory of these three martyrs is preserved in Parisian Codex 1578 and in Patmian Codex 266, along with their companions.
5. "The same day, the birthday of St. Eugenius, bishop of Toledo, and martyr, disciple of blessed Denis the Areopagite. Having consummated his martyrdom near Paris, he received from our Lord a crown for his blessed sufferings. His body was afterwards conveyed to Toledo."[15]
6. "At Nola, in Campania, blessed Felix, bishop and martyr, who was renowned for miracles from the fifteenth year of his age. He terminated the combats of his martyrdom with thirty others, under the governor Marcian."[15]
7. Born in Wales, he moved to Brittany and settled at a place called Aleth, now St Malo, where he was the first bishop.
8. "In Bretagne, the birthday of St. Malo, bishop, who was glorious for miracles from his early years."[15]
9. Born in Leinster in Ireland, he was taken as a slave to the Orkney Islands by Norse raiders, but managed to escape to Scotland. He then went on pilgrimage to Rome and became a monk in Farfa Abbey in Italy. From there he went to the monastery of Rheinau Abbey in Switzerland, where he lived as a hermit for twenty-two years. His relics still exist.
10. See: (in Russian) Филипп Рабангский. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
11. St. Paisius was one of the greatest teachers of the spirituality of the Jesus Prayer and translator of Patristic texts on prayer, St Paisius renewed monastic life in several Orthodox lands and had disciples from ten nationalities. His disciples prayed up to 14 hours per day as they united prayer with reading and physical work.[20]
12. See: (in Russian) http://www.pravenc.ru/text/166597.html ГРИГОРИЙ]. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
13. There is some confusion in the sources as to whether this refers to 'Justinian and Theodora' or to 'Justin and Euphemia'.
14. As a New Calendarist, and therefore a member of an ecumenist "member church of the "World Council of Churches" who died after the 1983 Anathema against Ecumenism (issued by the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) under the Omophorion of Metropolitan Philaret of New York), they can not be recognised as a saint by any Canonical True Orthodox, Authentic Orthodox or Genuine Orthodox Synod or individual believer. Such people are, therefore, classified as "ecumenist heretics" instead. http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/ecum_anath.aspx. In addition he made the error of commemorating some post-great Schism pseudo-saints falsely as saints and made icons of them, such as Francis of Assisi.

References

1. November 15 / December 28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
2. November 28 / November 15. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
3. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Δημήτριος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
4. (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
5. Martyr Demetrius of Thrace. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
6. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Γουρίας, Σαμωνᾶς καὶ Ἄβιβος οἱ Ὁμολογητές. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. Martyr and Confessor Gurias of Edessa. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
8. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Κυντίων (ἢ Κυντιρίων ἢ Κυντιανὸς ἢ Κυντιριανός) Ἐπίσκοπος Σελευκείας. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐψύχιος, Νέαρχος καὶ Καρτέριος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
10. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἐλπίδιος, Μάρκελλος καὶ Εὐστόχιος οἱ Μάρτυρες. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. Martyr Elpidius who suffered under Julian the Apostate. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
12. (in Greek) Άγιος Θωμάς ο Β' ο νέος, Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινούπολης. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.
13. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 85.
14. November 15. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
15. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 352-353.
16. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 542-544.
17. St Philip of Rabanga. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
18. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Παΐσιος Βελιτσκόφσκυ (Ρῶσος). 15 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. Venerable Paisius Velichkovsky. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
20. Dr. Alexander Roman. November. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
21. (in Russian) 28 ноября (15 ноября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
22. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Μνήμη τῶν εὐσεβῶν βασιλέων Ἰουστίνου καὶ Θεοδώρας. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. Icon of the Mother of God of Kupyatich. OCA - Lives of the Saints.

Sources

• November 15 / December 28. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• November 28 / November 15. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• November 15. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 85.
• The Fifteenth Day of the Month of November. Orthodoxy in China.
• November 15. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 352-353.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 542–544.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 15 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 15 Νοεμβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• (in Greek) 15/11/2015. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 28 ноября (15 ноября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).