Publication Data: House Springs, MO: Chrysostom Press, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: x + 688
Dimensions (l × w × h): 9 1/4 in × 6 1/4 in ×2 in
ISBN: 1‒889814‒00-8
Translated from the Slavonic edition published by the Christian Printshop of the Transfiguration Almshouse in Moscow in the year 1914 from the original compiled by Saint Demetrius of Rostov and published in Kiev
First English Edition Translated by Father Thomas Marretta
Volume VI of The Great Collection of The Lives of the Saints
“In these volumes of the present collection we offer to English-speaking Orthodox Christians the first set in any modern Western language of full-length accounts of the struggles and martyrdoms of the most eminent saints to cover the entire course of the year. Our devout forebears in the faith had as their daily reading not newspapers and novels but the Holy Gospels, the Psalter, the Book of Hours, and the Lives of the saints. Nourished constantly by these, their souls were filled with ineffable delight and spiritual yearning, and they lived not for this fallen world but in expectation of the eternal kingdom. It is our hope that these volumes will likewise ever be in the hands of the Christians of our time.”
—“To the Pious Reader”
Contents
To the Pious Reader
The Teachers, Historians, and Chroniclers from whose works this book was compiled
Noverber 1
The Holy Unmercenaries and Wonder-workers Cosmos and Damian
The Holy Martyrs Hermeningilda, Prince of the Goths
November 2
The Holy Martyrs Acindynus, Pegsius, Anampodistus, Elpidephorus, and Aphthonius.
November 3
The Holy Martyrs Acepsimas the Bishop, Joseph the Presbyter, and Aethalas the Deacon
November 4
Our Holy Father Joannicus the Great
The Holy Martyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra and Hermas the Presbyter
November 5
The Holy Martyrs Galacteon and Episteme
Saint Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod
November 6
Saint Paul the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople
Our Holy Father Barlaam of Khutyn
November 8
The Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Bodiless Powers
November 9
The Holy Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius
Our Holy Mother Matrona
Our Holy Mother Theoctista of Lesbos
November 10
The Holy Apostles Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Erastus, Quartus, and Tertius
The Holy Martyr Orestes
November 11
The Great Martyr Menas
The Holy Martyr Victor and Stephanida
The Holy Martyr Vincent the Deacon
Our Holy Father Theodore the Studio
November 12
Saint John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria
Our Holy Father Nilus the Faster
November 13
Saint John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople
November 14
Holy Apostle Phillip
Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica
November 15
The Holy Martyr Gurias, Samonas, and Abibus the Confessors
November 16
The Holt Apostle and Evangelist Matthew
November 17
Saint Gregory the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Neo-Caesarea
Our Holy Father Nicon of Radonezh
November 18
The Holy Martyr Plato
The Holy Martyr Romanus and Barulas
November 19
The Holy Prophet Obadiah
The Holy Martyr Barlaam the Elder
A Homily on Barlaam, written by St. Basil
A Homily on Barlaam, written by St. John Chrysostom
Our Holy Father Barlaam and Joaseph of India
Our Holy Father Barlaam of the Kiev Caves
November 20
Our Holy Father Gregory the Decapolite
Saint Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople
The Holy Martyrs Eustace, Thespesius, and Anatolius
November 21
THE ENTRANCE INTO THE TEMPLE OF OUR MOST PURE LADY, THE THEOTOKOS
November 22
The Holy Apostles Philemon and Archippus and the Martyr Apphia
The Holy Martyr Cecilia and the Martyrs Valerian, Tiburtius, and Maximus
November 23
Saint Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium
Saint Gregory, Bishop of Agrigentum
November 24
The Holy Great Martyr Catherine
The Holy Great Martyr Mercurius
November 25
The Holy Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome
The Holy Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria
November 26
Our Holy Father Alypius the Stylite
November 27
The Holy Martyr James the Persian
November 28
The Holy Martyr Stephan the New
November 29
The Holy Martyr Paramon
Our Holt Father Acacius of Sinai
November 30
The Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called
A Homily on the Holy Apostle Andrew, written by Saint John Chrysostom
Translator’s Note
Index of the Saints and Feasts of November