დღის კალენდარი - 15 ნოემბერი

The 319th day of the year; 46 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Commemoration of the Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidiphorus, Anempodistus, and about 7,000 others with them (330); the Venerable Marcian of Cyrrhus (381–391); and the Martyrs Eudoxius, Agapius, and eight others: Atticus, Marinus, Oceanus, Eustratius, Carterius, Nicopolitanus, Styrax, and Tobias (315).

The martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Anempodistus, and their companions were courtiers of the Persian King Sapor and secretly professed the Christian faith. When the King began the persecution of Christians, they were denounced by malicious accusers. Before the sovereign, they fearlessly confessed Christianity, for which the saints were subjected to immense suffering.

The Venerable Marcian of Cyrrhus withdrew into the wilderness, where he spent many years in unceasing prayer and strict fasting. Some time later, the Venerable Marcian received two disciples who had come to join him and share his lot. Before his passing, Saint Marcian instructed his disciples to bury him at a distance from his cell, in order to avoid future veneration and to preemptively prevent any disputes among the faithful who might otherwise seek to possess his holy relics. The Venerable Marcian died in 388.

Born:

1738 – William Herschel, English astronomer and optician; died in 1822.

1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Mexican writer and journalist, considered the founder of national prose; died in 1827.

1825 – Gabriel (Kikodze), Bishop of Imereti (d. 1896).

1857 – William H. Taft, 27th President of the United States; died in 1930.

1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer and Nobel Prize laureate; died in 1946. 1869 – Vasily Bartold, Russian Orientalist. Died in 1930.

1874 – August Krogh, Dutch physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Died in 1949.

1901 – Totò (Antonio de Curtis Gagliardi), Italian actor. Died in 1967.

1922 – Francesco Rosi, Italian film director.

1922 – Gigla Pirtskhalava, artist. Died in 1983.

1954 – Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland.

Died:

1630 – Johannes Kepler, German astronomer.

1773 – Besarion, Catholicos-Patriarch of Western Georgia.

1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate. Born in 1846.

Events:

1809 – A combined Georgian-Russian force captured Poti.

1889 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil abdicated. The country was declared a republic. 1904 — American King Camp Gillette patented a razor with replaceable blades.

1917 — The "Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia" was published.

1920 — The first session of the League of Nations Assembly was held in Geneva.

1944 — Georgian Muslims were deported from Georgia to Central Asia.

1934 — Harold Clayton Urey received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1957 — Soviet spy Rudolf Abel was sentenced to 30 years in prison by an American court.

1973 — Egypt and Israel exchanged prisoners of war.

1994 — An earthquake measuring magnitude 8 occurred in the Philippines, resulting in the deaths of 45,000 people.

1994 — Helmut Kohl was elected Chancellor of Germany.

Commemorative Days:

Belgium – Day of the Royal Dynasty.

Brazil – Republic Day.