In the park - a heap of leaves of different, slush, rain in the yard ... Who has a holiday today, the name-day in November?

We must remember that the calendar November does not coincide with the church month in the old style. He is 13 days closer to the fall than to winter (according to the saints, it ends on December 13th according to the Gregorian calendar). We will briefly "leaf through" the pages of the hagiography according to the days of the modern calendar. Orthodox people in November celebrate people with the most familiar, and with rare names.

First of all, let us recall the most amazing saints, and also mention the rare names in numbers (we will indicate them in parentheses after each name).

First week of November

On November 1, they honor the memory of the martyr Uar, who has the grace to pray for the dead without Holy Baptism. 2nd - the Monk Gerasimus, who tamed a lion in the desert. The third most honorable name is Hilarion, one of which - the Pskovoye Vere monk - performed his feat in the hollow of a large pine (and until now its relics are in the chapel of the village of Lake Gdov district). 4-th - a rare case when one saint of the all-Christian period has two names - Konstantin and Eksakustudian. 5th - the memory of the apostle James, the brother of the Lord. 6th - bishop of the Scythian named Papa. 7th - righteous Tabitha, resurrected according to the prayer of the Apostle Peter.

Beautiful rare names, whose name-day in November in the first week: Cleopatra, Leontius, Felix (1), Artemius, Matrona (2), Aza, Julian, Socrates (3), Anfusa, Irakly, Rufus, Theodotius (4), Elisha, Efrosinia (5), Aref, Zosima, Synclytics (6), Anastasius (7).

The second week

On the eighth of November, the memory of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, the patron of Russian soldiers, the 9th - the Caves Nestor the Chronicler, the 10th - Metropolitan Dimitry of Rostov, whose works were assembled together the Lives of the Saints. The 11th - the Bethlehem of St. Anne, who worked in the male image under the name of Evfimian, the 12th - the Monk-martyr Anastasia Romlyany, the 13th - the apostle from the 70th Stakhia, whose name was adopted in the Orthodox Christianity as having a passport name Stanislav, on the 14th - Hereditary healers Cosmas and Damian of Asia.

Name days in November in the second week: Stylikon, Leptina, Mitrodor, Theophilus (8), Capitolina, Mark (9), Angelius, African, Evnikiia, Job, Nathanael, Paraskeva, Terenty, Fevronia (10), Agafia, Claudius, Melitina, Theodosius (11), Herman, Eutropius, Marcellus (12), Aristovul, Dormedontus, Mavra, Stratonica (13), Agrippina, David, Ermingingld, Caesarea, Kirienas, Longinus, Procopius, Theodotius, Thomas (14).

The third week

November 15 - the memory of the martyr Domna, at the beginning of the 4th century without fear of the enthronement of the martyrs killed by the emperor-persecutor, the 16th - the great martyr George the Victorious, the 17th - the blessed Simon Yuryevetsky (feat of foolishness was especially common in the Russian north), the 18th - Patriarch Tikhon (Belavin); on the 19th, the Monk Varlaam Khutynsky, a Novgorod saint, comparable in importance to Sergius of Radonezh; on the 20th, the largest in November, the Cathedral of Martyrs; on the 21st, the day of the nine archangels of the Lord.

Name days in November in the third week: Akindin, Domnina, Kiprian (15), Akepsim, Attic, Dictorina, Eustratius, Marin, Ocean, Perpetua, Fotinia (16), Eremey, Mercury, Porphyry, Theodora (17), Agafangel, Galaktion, Dorofey, Pamphylus, Philologist (18), Claudia, Luke, Nikandr, Tecus (19), Afinodor, Valerius, Eutychius, Cassinia, Taurion, Thessalonica (20), Martha, Raphael (21).

Name days at the end of the month

On November 22, the memory of the Miracle Worker Bishop Nektarius of Eginsky is celebrated, the 23rd - the Georgian prince - martyr Constantine, the 24th - the Serbian King Great Martyr Stephen, the 25th - the Alexandrian Patriarch John the Merciful (the title is self-proclaiming), the 26th - the saint John the Chrysostom, the 27th - the Apostle Philip, the 28th - the Monk Paisius Velichkovsky (the 18th century), the "father of Russian senility", the 29th - the Ethiopian prince Fulvian (in the baptism of Matthew), the 30th - the Neoecasarian Bishop Gregory the Miracle-Worker and The Monk Nestor of Radonezh.

To see all the name-day in November from the 22nd to the end of the month, it seems, everyone who has become interested in this brief listing of Orthodox saints will wish.

The church birthday in November, given in this article, is an excellent occasion for thinking for those parents who want to choose an unusual rare name for their newborn, but mistakenly believe that they can be found only on the side, in the series about Jose-Ignacio and Juan- Carlos, Izauri and Manuel, or in the pagan element of creativity with Slavic roots, such as Lubomir or Snezhana.