November 15 (old calendar) / November 28 (new)

November 15 (old calendar) / November 28 (new) Nativity Fast Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas, and Abibus, of Edessa (299-306). Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, and Eustochius, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (4th c.). Martyr Demetrius of Thrace (ca. 307). Ven. Paísii (Paisius) Velichkovsky (1794). SAINT PAISIUS VELICHKOVSKY Saint Paisius Velichkovsky was born in Poltava in Little Russia on December 21, 1722, and was the eleventh of twelve children. His