Saints of 22 November
The feast, the saints of the day, and the Roman Martyrology for 22 November.
Feasts in 2026
Sunday 22 November 2026.
- Ordinary Form: Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Solemnity, white. Also kept: 34th Sunday in Ordinary Time, St Cecilia.
- 1962 calendar: Twenty-fourth and Last Sunday after Pentecost. Second class, green. Also kept: St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr.
Feasts that depend on the date of Easter fall on a different day each year.
Saints of the day
- St Cecilia. Virgin, martyr, and patroness of music.
Roman Martyrology
St Cecilia, virgin and martyr (Borne)
At Borne, St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr, who brought to the faith of Christ her spouse Valerian and his brother Tiburtius, and encouraged them to martyrdom. After their death, being arrested by order of Almachius, prefect of the city, and exposed to the fire, from which she came out uninjured, she terminated her glorious sufferings by the sword, in the time of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Sevens s Alexander.
Ss. Philemon and Apphias
At ColossaB, in Phrygia, during the reign of Nero, Saints Philemon and Apphias, disciples of St. Paul. When the Gentiles rushed into the church on the feast of Diana, they were arrested whilst the other Christians fled, and by the command of the governor Artocles, were scourged, let down into a pit up to their waist, and overwhelmed with stones.
St Maurus, martyr
Also, at Rome, St. Maurus, martyr, who, coming from Africa to visit the tombs of the Apostles, was condemned to die, under the emperor Numerian, Celerinus being prefect of the city.
Ss. Mark and Stephen
At Antioch, in Pisidia, the martyrdom of the Saints Mark and Stephen, under the emperor Diocletian.
St Pragmatius of Autun
At Autun, St. Pragmatius, bishop and confessor.
From the 1916 English edition of the Roman Martyrology, which is in the public domain. Saints canonised since then are added with a short note.
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