The Fifteenth Day of the Month of November

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"Kupyatich" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
Holy Martyrs and Confessors of Edessa: Gurias, Samonas, and Abibus (Habib) (322)
Repose of St. Herman, wonderworker of Alaska
Martyrs: Elpidius, Marcellus, and Eustochius who suffered under Julian the Apostate
Martyr Demetrius of Thrace (307)
St. Quinctian, bishop of Seleucia (4th cen.)
St. Philip, abbot of Rabang (Vologda -1457)
St. Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos (1794)
St. Thomas the New, patriarch of Constantinople
Beginning of Nativity Fast
Troparion of the Holy Martyrs of Edessa Tone 5

Wise Guria and Shamuna are praised today with Deacon Habib,/ they fill the faithful with joy and their contests are the boast of Edessa./ They trampled down error by their words,/ and by their deeds became martyrs and wonderworkers./ They pray for us to the Lover of mankind.

Kontakion of the Holy Martyrs of Edessa Tone 2

You protect those in temptation with grace from on high, O holy Martyrs./ You saved a girl from bitter death/ and are the glory of Edessa and the joy of all the world.
- Bl. Paisius Velichkovsky: The Man Behind the Philokalia
- Services to Bl. Paisius
- Russian Icons
- Prologue From Ochrid by St Nikolai Velimirovich
- OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
- OCA - Troparia and Kontakia
- Mesyatseslov of Saints Lives (Russian)
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