November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 24

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 10.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.

Saints

 * Martyr Myrope of Chios, under Decius (251) (see also: December 2 )
 * Saint Sisinius the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus (c. 325)
 * Venerable Ischyrion, Bishop in Egypt and hermit of Scete.
 * Venerable Helenus, Bishop of Tarsus.
 * Martyr Theodore of Antioch (after 363)
 * Saint Amphilochius of Iconium, Bishop of Iconium (394)
 * Saint Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum, Sicily (690)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome (c. 101)  (see also: Jan 4, Apr 22, Sept 10 and Nov 25 - East)
 * Saint Felicity, a widow martyred with her sons either in Rome or else in North Africa under Decius, buried in Rome (c. 165)  (see also: January 25 - East)
 * Virgin-martyr Lucretia, in Mérida in the west of Spain (306)
 * Saint Paternian, Bishop of Fano in Italy (c. 343)
 * Saint Clement, first Bishop of Metz in the east of France.
 * Saint Paulinus of Wales (Polin, Pewlin, Paulhen), an Abbot in Wales and disciple of St Illtyd, founder of the monastery of Whitland (c. 505)
 * Saint Columbanus, Irish missionary and founder of Luxeuil Abbey and Bobbio Abbey (615)  (see also: November 21)
 * Saint Wilfetrudis, second Abbess of Nivelles in Belgium, founded by her aunt St Gertrude (c. 670)
 * Venerable Trudo (Trudon, Tron, Trond, Truyen, Trudjen), Abbot, of Zirkingen (c. 695)
 * Saint Rachildis, an anchoress who lived near the monastery of St Gall in Switzerland (c. 946)
 * Saint Adalbert, a monk at Cassoria in the Abruzzi in Italy, founder of the monastery of St Nicholas on Mt Caramanico near Chieti (c. 1045)
 * Saint Guy of Casauria, a monk at Farfa who became Abbot of Casauria Abbey near Chieti in Italy (1045)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122) (see also: August 28 )
 * Burial of Saint Alexander Nevsky (in schema Alexis), Grand Prince of Novgorod (1263)
 * Saint Dionysius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, "the Wise" (1492)
 * Saint Metrophanes (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh (1703)
 * Saint Anthony of lezeru-Vilcea, Romania (1714)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Tievar), Hieromonk, of Moscow (1931)
 * Saint John Vasiliev, Confessor (1932)
 * New Hieromartyr Boris (Voskoboinikov), Bishop of Ivanovo (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Eleazar Spyridonov of Eupatoria, Priest, first rector of the Greek Church of St. Elijah (Yevpatoria) in Crimea (1937)
 * Martyr Alexander Uksusov of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
 * New Hieomartyr Archimandrite Gregory (Peradze) of Georgia, who suffered in Auschwitz, Poland (1942)