Name days on November 21
Saints and feasts of November 21
Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple
Great Feast, Είσοδος Θεοτόκου
The Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple, kept on November 21, commemorates the day the child Mary, at the age of three, was brought by her parents Joachim and Anna to the Temple in Jerusalem in fulfillment of their vow. According to tradition she was received by the priest Zacharias and dwelt in the Temple, nourished in prayer and prepared to become the living temple of God.
Procopius of Vyatka
Venerable, Προκόπιος της Βιάτκα
Blessed Procopius lived in the town of Vyatka in Russia in the seventeenth century. After being struck by lightning as a boy he was healed at a monastery and took up the ascetic life of a fool for Christ, going barefoot in winter and bearing insults with patience.
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