Nilus of Sinai

Venerable Nilus the Ascetic of Sinai, disciple of Saint John Chrysostom and spiritual writer.

Saint Nilus was a high official in Constantinople and a disciple of Saint John Chrysostom. By agreement with his wife he left the world and settled with his son Theodoulos on Mount Sinai, where he lived as an ascetic.

He wrote many letters and treatises on the spiritual life which remain among the classics of Orthodox ascetical literature, and reposed in the fifth century.

Feast day

On the New Calendar, Nilus of Sinai is commemorated on November 12. Churches on the Old (Julian) Calendar keep the feast on November 25 of the civil calendar.

Who celebrates a name day

People with these names keep their name day on this feast:

Neilos, Nilos, Nilus

Also commemorated on November 12

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  John the Merciful

  Hierarch, Ιωάννης ο Ελεήμων

  Patriarch of Alexandria, the Almsgiver.

  Name days: Ioannis, Giannis, John

• Nilus the Myrrhgusher

  Venerable, Νείλος ο Μυροβλύτης

  Venerable Nilus the Myrrhgusher of Mount Athos.

  Name days: Neilos, Nilos, Nilus

• Martin of Tours

  Hierarch, Μαρτίνος ο Ελεήμων

  Saint Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours, the soldier who shared his cloak with a beggar.

  Name days: Martinos, Martin

• Ahijah the Prophet

  Prophet, Αχιά ο Προφήτης

  Holy Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite, who foretold the division of the kingdom of Israel.

• Sabbas Nigdelis

  Martyr, Σάββας Νιγδελής ο Νεομάρτυς

  Holy New Martyr Sabbas Nigdelis of Nigde in Cappadocia, martyred in Constantinople in 1726.

• Zebinas, Germanos, Nikephoros and Antoninus

  Martyr, Ζεβινάς, Γερμανός, Νικηφόρος και Αντωνίνος

  Holy Martyrs Zebinas, Germanos, Nikephoros and Antoninus, with the Virgin Manatho, at Caesarea in Palestine.