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November 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
November 23 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective November 23 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
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 Elenos (Helenus), Bishop of Tarsus.
Martyr Theodore of Antioch (after 363)
Saint Amphilochius, 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 (Columban), 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) (see also: November 14 - repose; August 30 - translation of relics)
Saint Dionysius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, "the Wise" (1492)
Saint Metrophanes (Mitrophan, Mitrofan) (in schema Macarius), Bishop of Voronezh (1703)
Saint Anthony of Iezeru-Vilcea, Romania (1714)
New martyrs and confessors
New Hieromartyr Seraphim Thievart, 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 (Grigol) Peradze of Georgia, who suffered in Auschwitz, Poland (1942) (see also: December 6 - N.S.)