November 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 29

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 28, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 15.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Acacius, Martyr Irenarchus and Seven Women-martyrs at Sebaste (303)
 * Martyrs at Tiberiopolis (361-362):
 * Timothy and Theodore, bishops;
 * Peter, John, Sergius, Theodore, and Nicephorus, presbyters;
 * Basil and Thomas, deacons;
 * Hieroteus, Daniel, Chariton, Socrates, Comasius, and Eusebius, monks;
 * Etymasius, martyr.


 * Saint Theodore, Bishop of Theodosiopolis in Armenia (end of 6th century)
 * Saint Maurice, Emperor of Rome, and his six sons (602)
 * Venerable Monk-martyr and Confessor Stephen the New of Mt. St. Auxentius (767)
 * Martyrs: Basil, Stephen, Gregory, another Gregory, John, Andrew, Peter, Anna, and many others (767)


 * Saint Romanos, Bishop of Macedonia.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Rufus and Companions, a citizen of Rome who was martyred with his entire household under Diocletian (304)
 * Saints Papinianus and Mansuetus, Bishops in North Africa martyred under the Arian Vandal King Genseric (5th century)
 * Saints Valerian, Urban, Crescens, Eustacius Cresconius, Crescentian, Felix, Hortulanus and Florentian, Bishops from North Africa exiled by the Arian King Genseric (5th century)
 * Saint Fionnchu, the successor of St. Comgall at the monastery of Bangor in Ireland (6th century)
 * Saint Oda of Brabant, the Blind Princess of Scotland (c. 726) (see also: October 23 )
 * Saint Hippolytus, Bishop of Saint-Claude in France (c. 775)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Blessed Theodore, Archbishop of Rostov (1394)
 * Martyr Christos the Gardener, of Albania, at Constantinople (1748)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), Metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1937)


 * New Hieromartyrs Alexis Veselovsky, Alexis Smirnov, and Basil Zavgorodnego, Priests (1937)


 * New Hieromartyr Raphael (Tyupin), hieromonk of the Zlatoustov Monastery, Moscow (1937)
 * New Monkmartyr Vincent (Nikolsky) of Optina Monastery (1937)
 * Virgin-martyr Anysia Maslanovoy (1937)
 * Virgin-Martyr Paraskeva Fedorov (1938)
 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Krylov, Priest (1941).

Other commemorations

 * Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky), Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)