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November 17 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
November 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 18 All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For November 17, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 4. Saints * Saint Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo-Caesarea (266)November 17 / December 30 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).November 30 / November 17 Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). Συναξαριστής. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Of Alexandria
Catherine of Alexandria (also spelled Katherine); grc-gre, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς ; ar, سانت كاترين; la, Catharina Alexandrina). is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar who became a Christians, Christian around the age of 14, converted hundreds of people to Christianity and was martyred around the age of eighteen. More than 1,100 years after Catherine's martyrdom, Joan of Arc identified her as one of the saints who appeared to and counselled her.Williard Trask, ''Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words'' (Turtle Point Press, 1996), 99 The Eastern Orthodox Church venerates her as a Great Martyr and celebrates her feast day on 24 or 25 November, depending on the regional tradition. In Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catherine is traditionally revered as one of the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aignan Of Orleans
Aignan or Agnan ( la, Anianus) (358–453), seventh Bishop of Orléans, France, assisted Roman general Flavius Aetius in the defense of the city against Attila the Hun in 451. He is known as Saint Aignan. Feast day: 17 November Life Aignan of Orléans (or Anianus) was born about 358 in Vienne in the Dauphiné to a family probably of Roman origin, who had fled the control of the Arian Goths in their homeland of Hungary. His brother Leonianus became an abbot, and is commemorated in the Gallican martyrology on 16 November.Baring-Gould, Sabine. ''The Lives of the Saints'' United Kingdom, J. Hodges., 1877. p. 378 As a young man, he retired to a hermitage he had built for himself near that city, to live a life o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenobius Of Florence
Saint Zenobius ( it, San Zanobi, Zenobio) (337–417) is venerated as the first bishop of Florence. His feast day is celebrated on May 25. Life Born of a Florentine noble family, Zenobius was educated by his pagan parents. He came under the influence early of the bishop Theodore, was baptized by him, and succeeded, after much opposition, in bringing his father and mother to Christianity. He embraced the clerical state, and rapidly rose to the position of archdeacon, when his virtues and notable powers as a preacher made him known to Saint Ambrose, at whose instance Pope Damasus I (r. 366–386) called him to Rome, and employed him in various important missions, including a legation to Constantinople. On the death of Damasus he returned to his native city, where he resumed his apostolic labours, and on the death of the bishop of that see, Zenobius, to the great joy of the people, was appointed to succeed him. His deacons are venerated as Saint Eugene and Saint Crescentius. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acisclus And Victoria
Saint Acisclus (also Ascylus, Ocysellus; es, Acisclo; french: Aciscle) (died 304) was a martyr of Córdoba, Spain, Córdoba, in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, i.e., modern Portugal and Spain). His life is mentioned by Eulogius of Cordoba. He suffered martyrdom during the Diocletianic Persecution along with his sister Saint Victoria (Spanish martyr), Victoria. Their feast day is 17 November. There is doubt about the historical veracity of Victoria's existence, but both martyrs were honored in Mozarabic liturgical rites. After they were arrested, Acisclus and Victoria were tortured. According to tradition, Victoria was killed by arrows and Acisclus was decapitation, beheaded. One tenth century ''passio'' relates that the ancient Rome, Roman prefect of Córdoba, Dion, an "iniquitous persecutor of Christians," had Acisclus and Victoria cast into a fiery Metallurgical furnace, furnace. However, when he heard Acisclus and Victoria sing songs of joy from within the furnace, Dio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanos I Lekapenos
Romanos I Lekapenos ( el, Ρωμανός Λεκαπηνός; 870 – 15 June 948), Latinisation of names, Latinized as Romanus I Lecapenus, was Byzantine emperor from 920 until his deposition in 944, serving as regent for the infant Constantine VII. Origin Romanos Lekapenos, born in Lakape (later Laqabin (West Syriac diocese), Laqabin) between Melitene and Samosata (hence the name), was the son of an Armenian peasant with the remarkable name of Theophylact the Unbearable (Theophylaktos Abastaktos). However, according to the Byzantinist Anthony Kaldellis, Romanos is discussed in many Byzantine sources, but none of them calls him an Armenian. His father came from humble origin and that's the reason he was assumed to have been Armenian. This alleged ethnicity has been repeated so often in literature that it has acquired the status of a known fact, even though it is based on the most tenuous of indirect connections. Nevertheless, his father Theophylact, as a soldier, had rescued the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte Delehaye
Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J., (19 August 1859 – 1 April 1941) was a Belgian Jesuit who was a hagiographical scholar and an outstanding member of the Society of Bollandists. Biography Born in 1859 in Antwerp, Delehaye joined the Society of Jesus in 1876, being received into the novitiate the following year. After making his initial profession of religious vows in 1879, he was sent to study philosophy at the University of Louvain from 1879 to 1882. He was then assigned until 1886 to teach mathematics at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Ghent (named for the school in Paris, '' alma mater'' of Ignatius of Loyola). Delehaye was ordained in 1890. In 1892 Fr Delehaye was appointed by his Jesuit superiors to be a fellow of the Society of Bollandists, named for the 17th-century hagiographical scholar Jean Bolland, S.J.,and founded the early seventeenth century specifically to study hagiography, research towards the gathering and evaluation of historical documentary sources regarding the li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia (country)
Georgia (, ; ) is a transcontinental country at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is part of the Caucasus region, bounded by the Black Sea to the west, by Russia to the north and northeast, by Turkey to the southwest, by Armenia to the south, and by Azerbaijan to the southeast. The country covers an area of , and has a population of 3.7 million people. Tbilisi is its capital as well as its largest city, home to roughly a third of the Georgian population. During the classical era, several independent kingdoms became established in what is now Georgia, such as Colchis and Iberia. In the early 4th century, ethnic Georgians officially adopted Christianity, which contributed to the spiritual and political unification of the early Georgian states. In the Middle Ages, the unified Kingdom of Georgia emerged and reached its Golden Age during the reign of King David IV and Queen Tamar in the 12th and early 13th centuries. Thereafter, the kingdom decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gobron
Gobron ( ka, გობრონი, tr) also known as Mikel-Gobron or Michael-Gobron () (died November 17, 914) was a Christian Georgian military commander who led the defense of the fortress of Q'ueli against the Sajid emir of Azerbaijan. When the fortress fell after a 28-day-long siege, Gobron was captured and beheaded, having rejected inducements to convert to Islam. Shortly after his death Gobron became the subject of the hagiography authored by Bishop Stephen of T'betiRayfield, Donald (2000), '' The Literature of Georgia: A History'', pp. 48-9. Routledge, . and a saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church, which commemorates him on November 17 ( O.S., which equates to November 30 on the Gregorian calendar).Machitadze, Archpriest Zakaria (2006)"Great-Martyr Mikael-Gobron and his 133 Soldiers (†914)" i''The Lives of the Georgian Saints''. ''pravoslavie.ru''. Retrieved on 2011-11-26. His martyrdom is also mentioned by the medieval Georgian and Armenian chronicles. Tsagareishvil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazarus Zographos
Lazarus ( gr, Λάζαρος), surnamed Zographos (Ζωγράφος, "the Painter"), is a 9th-century Byzantine Christian saint.Ramsgate, St Augustine's Abbey. ''The Book of Saints: A Dictionary of Servants of God Canonized''. NP: Adam and Charles Black, 1966 He is also known as ''Lazarus the Painter'' and ''Lazarus the Iconographer''. Born in Armenia on November 17, 810, he lived before and during the second period of Byzantine Iconoclasm.Bigham, Steven. "Chapter 3." In ''Heroes of the Icon: People, Places, Events'', 87-89. Torrance: Oakwood, 1998. 87-90. Lazarus was the first saint to be canonized specifically as an iconographer. He was later followed by Saint Catherine of Bologna. Life and times Lazarus became a monk at an early age and is thought to have studied the art of painting at the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople.O'Connell, Monique, Olenka Z. Pevny, and Alice-Mary Talbot. "Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843-1261)." ''Sixteenth Century Journal'' 33, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 21 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics)
April 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 22 All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''May 4'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For April 21, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on '' April 8''. Saints * Martyrs Theodore of Perge in Pamphylia, his mother Philippa, and Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius (c. 138-161)April 21 / May 4 Orthodox Calendar (pravoslavie.ru).May 4 / April 21 Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). (''see also: |
