Holy Apostle Philip
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Holy Apostle PhilipApostle
What is known
An apostle was sent. The word covers the Twelve, the Seventy whom Christ sent ahead of him, and a few others the New Testament names in the same office.
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.
- St Gregory Palamas (1359)d. 1359 life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Gregory Palamas
Gregory defended the monks of stillness by teaching that God remains unknowable in His essence yet truly shares His uncreated life with His creatures through grace.
- Era
- c. 1296–1357
- Region
- Constantinople, Mount Athos, Thessalonica, and Asia Minor
- Category
- Monk, archbishop, theologian, and defender of hesychasm
- Feast
- November 14 and the Second Sunday of Great Lent
- Pious Emperor Justinian and His Wife Theodora (565)d. 565
What is known
The year given is 565.
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 Great New Martyr Constantine of HydraNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
What is known
A new martyr died in one of the later persecutions rather than the Roman ones — most often under Ottoman rule, or in the twentieth century under Soviet and other modern regimes. The word new distinguishes the era, not the manner.
The title places them at Hydra.
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.
Appointed readings
- 1 Peter 1:1–2:6 continues in 2
- 1 Peter 2:21–3:9 continues in 3
- 1 Peter 4:1–11
- John 21:15–25
- 1 Corinthians 4:9–16
- John 1:43–51
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 14 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on November 27 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.