saints of the day

†) St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (Fish allowed)

Orthodox Calendar, December 6 Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas, the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia is famed as a great saint pleasing unto God. He was born in the city of Patara in the region of Lycia (on the south coast of the Asia Minor peninsula) and was the only son of pious parents Theophanes…

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†) St. Sava the Sanctified; Martyr Anastasius

Orthodox Calendar, December 5 Saint Sava the Sanctified He was born in the fifth century at Cappadocia of pious Christian parents, John and Sophia. His father was a military commander. Journeying to Alexandria on military matters, John and Sophia left their five-year-old son Sava in the care of an uncle. When the boy reached eight…

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† Greatmartyr Barbara at Heliopolis, in Syria; St. John of Damascus (Fish permitted)

Orthodox Calendar December 4 Holy Great Martyr Barbara She lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-311). Her father, the pagan Dioscorus, was a rich and illustrious man in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis. After the death of his wife, he devoted himself to his only daughter. Seeing Barbara’s extraordinary beauty, Dioscorus…

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†) Saint George of Cernica and Căldăruşani; Prophet Zephaniah

Orthodox Calendar December 3 Saint George of Cernica He was born in 1730, and became a monk on Mount Athos when he was a young man. He was a disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (November 15) who was then the igumen of Vatopedi Monastery.Since the skete at Cernica had been deserted for almost thirty years,…

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Saints Cleopas and Paisius of Sihăstria; Prophet Habakkuk; Martyr Myrope of Chios; Saint Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite; Hierarch Solomon, Archbishop of Ephesus (Fish permitted)

Orthodox Calendar, December 2 Saints Cleopas and Paisius of Sihăstria Venerable and God-bearing Father Paisie of Sihăstria was born on 20 June 1897 in the village of Stroești, Botoșani County, into the Christian family of Ioan and Ecaterina Olaru, who were blessed by God with ten children. Born near the feast of the Holy Apostles…

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Saint Anastasia, the Mother of Saint Andrew Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania; Prophet Nahum; St. Philaret the Merciful (Te Deum)

Orthodox Calendar December 1 Saint Anastasia, the Mother of Saint Andrew Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania Blessed Anastasia was born in 1785 to faithful parents, Aromanian merchants from Macedonia who had settled in Miskolc, Hungary. Raised in the fear of God, in honour and in the Orthodox faith, she married Naum, the son of a merchant…

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†) Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, Protector of Romania; Holy Hierarch Andrei Saguna, metropolitan of Transylvania; St. Frumentius the Archbishop of Abyssinia, Ethiopia (Fish permitted)

Orthodox Calendar November 30 †) Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called, Protector of Romania He was the first of the Apostles to follow Christ, and he later brought his own brother, the holy Apostle Peter, to Christ (John 1:35-42). The future apostle was from Bethsaida, and from his youth he turned with all his soul to…

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Martyr Paramon in Bithynia; Martyr Philoumenus of Ancyra

Orthodox Calendar November 29 Martyr Paramon in Bithynia Holy Martyr Paramon and the 370 Martyrs with him suffered for their faith in Christ in the year 250 during the rule of the emperor Decius (249-251). The governor of the Eastern regions, Aquianus, had locked up 370 Christians in prison, urging them to abjure Christ and…

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Confessor Saint Arsenius of Prislop; Martyr Stephen the New of Mt St Auxentius; Martyr Hirenarchus at Sebaste

Orthodox Calendar November 28 Confessor Saint Arsenius of Prislop Venerable Father Arsenius was born on September 29, 1910, in the village of Vața de Sus in Hunedoara County, receiving at baptism the name Zian-Vălean. In the home of his parents, Iosif-Petru and Creștina Boca, simple and hardworking people, he grew up in the fear of…

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Greatmartyr James the Persian; Saints Nathaniel of Nitria and Pinuphrius of Egypt

Orthodox Calendar, November 27 Greatmartyr James the Persian The Holy Great Martyr James the Persian (the Sawn-Asunder) was born in the fourth century into a pious Christian family, both wealthy and illustrious. His wife was also a Christian, and the couple raised their children in piety, inspiring in them a love for prayer and the…

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St. Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis; St. Nikon; St. Stylianus of Paphlagonia

Orthodox Calendar, November 26 Saint Alypius the Stylite He was born in the city of Adrianopolis in Paphlagonia. His mother, a Christian, was widowed early, and she sent her son to be educated by Bishop Theodore. She distributed her substance to the poor, then began to live an ascetic life near the church as a…

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