Commemorated today
- Martyrs Onesiphorus and PorphyriusMartyr
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.
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 Father among the Saints Nectarius (Nektarios), bishop of Pentapolis, Wonderworker, and founder of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity on Aegina (1920).Hierarch · d. 1920 life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis
Slandered and removed from office, Nektarios refused to make vindication the centre of his life; he answered humiliation with prayer, teaching, patient service, and the founding of a community devoted to Christ.
- Era
- 1846–1920
- Region
- Thrace, Chios, Alexandria, Athens, and Aegina
- Category
- Metropolitan, theological educator, monastic founder, and wonderworker
- Feast
- November 9
- Our Venerable Father John the Dwarf (John the Short) (4th century)Monastic · 4th century
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 year given is the 4th century.
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 Mother Matrona (492)d. 492
What is known
The year given is 492.
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 Symeon Metaphrastes (960)d. 960
What is known
The year given is 960.
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.
- Theoktisti of the Isle of Lesbos
What is known
The title places them at Isle. 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.
Appointed readings
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on November 9 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on November 22 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.