Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Holy Prophet Habbakuk (Abbacum) (7th c. BC).Prophet
What is known
A prophet in the Orthodox calendar is almost always one of the Old Testament prophets, commemorated by the Church that reads them as speaking of Christ.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Holy Martyr Myrope (Myropea) of Chios (251)Martyr · d. 251
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The title places them at Chios. The year given is 251.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Our Holy Father Athanasius "the Resurrected," Recluse of the Kiev Caves (1176)d. 1176
What is known
The title places them at Kiev Caves. The year given is 1176.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Saint (Stephen) Uroš, King of Serbia (1367)d. 1367
What is known
The title places them at Serbia. The year given is 1367.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia (1991) (November 19, old calendar)d. 1991 life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
A boy with almost no schooling became an Athonite monk and, after illness brought him back into the world, served for decades beside hospital beds, teaching people to turn toward Christ with freedom, love, and joy.
- Era
- 1906–1991
- Region
- Euboea, Mount Athos, and Athens, Greece
- Category
- Priest, spiritual father, monastic founder, and wonderworker
- Feast
- December 2
- Our Righteous Father Cyril of PhileusRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The title places them at Phileus. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Joannicos the Monk of DevichMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The title places them at Devich. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Theophilos the HermitMonastic
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 2 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 15 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.