Orthodox saints and name days on November 22

Name days on November 22

Filemon, Philemon, Cecilia, Cecile, Cecily, Cecelia, Kikilia, Cecillia

Saints and feasts of November 22

• Philemon the Apostle

  Apostle, Φιλήμων

  The holy apostle Philemon, one of the Seventy, was a Christian of Colossae and the recipient of the Apostle Paul's epistle that bears his name, in which Paul pleads for the runaway slave Onesimus as for a beloved brother. His household was a gathering place for the church of his city.

  Name days: Filemon, Philemon

• Cecilia, Valerian and Tiburtius

  Holy Woman, Κικιλία, Βαλεριανός και Τιβούρτιος

  Saint Cecilia was a Roman noblewoman of the third century who had dedicated herself to Christ. Married against her will to the pagan Valerian, she persuaded him to respect her vow, and he and his brother Tiburtius were baptized and became zealous Christians.

  Name days: Cecilia, Cecile, Cecily, Cecelia, Kikilia, Cecillia

• Iakovos of Evia

  Venerable, Ιάκωβος Τσαλίκης

  Saint Iakovos Tsalikis was born in Asia Minor in 1920 and came to Euboea as a refugee child. He became a monk at the monastery of Saint David the Elder, where he served as abbot for many years, living in great asceticism and known for his humility, discernment and the healings worked through his prayers.

• Kallistos II of Constantinople

  Hierarch, Κάλλιστος ο Β' Ξανθόπουλος

  Saint Kallistos Xanthopoulos was a monk of Mount Athos and a disciple of the hesychast tradition of Saint Gregory of Sinai. Together with his companion Ignatios he composed the treatise on the spiritual life included in the Philokalia.

• Procopius the Reader

  Martyr, Προκόπιος ο Παλαιστίνιος

  Saint Procopius was a reader and interpreter of the church of Scythopolis who was brought to Caesarea in Palestine at the beginning of Diocletian's persecution. Refusing to sacrifice to the emperors, he confessed Christ before the governor.

• Menignus the Fuller

  Martyr, Μένιγνος ο Κναφεύς

  Saint Menignus was a fuller of Parium on the Hellespont during the persecution of Decius. Tradition relates that he tore up an imperial edict against the Christians and openly confessed Christ.

• Clement of Ochrid

  Hierarch, Κλήμης Αχρίδος

  Saint Clement was a disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodios and, after their death, laboured in Bulgaria, where he was made bishop and founded a school at Ochrid that trained thousands of clergy and teachers in the Slavonic language.