Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Greatmartyr Jacob of Persia
What is known
The title places them at Persia.
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.
- Repose of Archimandrite Lazarus (Moore) (1992) (November 14, old calendar)Repose · 1992
What is known
Repose is the Orthodox word for a saint's death — falling asleep. The day of death is normally the day the Church keeps.
The year given is 1992.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- Nathaniel of Nitria & Pinouphrios of Egypt, the RighteousRighteous
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 Nitria. 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.
- Gregory of Sinai and his disciple Gerasimos
What is known
The title places them at Sinai. 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.
- Arsenios of Rhaxos
What is known
The title places them at Rhaxos. 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.
- James the Wonderworker, Bishop of RostovHierarch
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Rostov.
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 November 27 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 10 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.