Orthodox saints and name days on November 11

Name days on November 11

Viktor, Viktoras, Victor, Viktoria, Victoria, Minas, Menas, Mina, Minos, Vikentios, Vincent, Vincentios, Vincenzo

Saints and feasts of November 11

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  Victor and Stephanida

  Martyr, Βίκτωρ

  The holy martyr Victor was a Christian soldier who suffered for Christ in the second century, refusing to sacrifice to idols and enduring cruel tortures with unshaken faith. Stephanida, the young wife of another soldier, saw his endurance, confessed Christ openly, and was put to death with him.

  Name days: Viktor, Viktoras, Victor, Viktoria, Victoria

• Menas the Great Martyr

  Martyr, Μηνάς ο Μεγαλομάρτυς

  Saint Menas was an Egyptian soldier in the Roman army in the late third century. When Diocletian's persecution began he left the army and lived in the mountains in prayer, then returned to Kotyaion in Phrygia and openly confessed Christ during the games.

  Name days: Minas, Menas, Mina, Minos

• Vincent the Deacon

  Hierarch, Βικέντιος ο Διάκονος

  Saint Vincent was a deacon of Saragossa in Spain and a disciple of Bishop Valerius. During the persecution of Diocletian he was brought to Valencia, where he boldly confessed Christ before the governor Dacian.

  Name days: Vikentios, Vincent, Vincentios, Vincenzo

• Theodore the Studite

  Venerable, Θεόδωρος ο Στουδίτης

  Saint Theodore was born in Constantinople in 759 and became abbot of the monastery of the Studion, which he made a model of monastic order. He suffered repeated exile and imprisonment, first for opposing the uncanonical marriage of the emperor and later for defending the veneration of the holy icons.

• Maximus of Moscow

  Venerable, Μάξιμος ο διά Χριστόν σαλός

  Blessed Maximus lived in Moscow in the fifteenth century as a fool for Christ, going about without shelter in every season and rebuking the sins of rich and poor alike. He reposed in 1434.