Orthodox calendar: November 2 - memory of the righteous youth Artemy Verkolskytranslated

23rd Week after Pentecost.

Today, November 2, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the Great Martyr. Artemia (362); right youth Artemy Verkolsky (1545); St. Gabriel of Samtavria (1995) (Georgian); sschmch. Nicholas the Presbyter (1918); sschmchch. Zosima, John, John, John, Nicholas, Leonidas, John and Alexander presbyters, Michael and Peter deacons and martyr. Paul (1937).

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The youth was born in 1532 in the village of Verkole, Dvina region, into a pious peasant family. Brought up in the fear of God and Christian piety, Saint Artemy, even in childhood, was distinguished by meekness, obedience and hard work. At the age of 12, while working in the fields, he was killed by lightning. Superstitious fellow villagers left the body of blessed Artemy, as if he had died from a sudden death, untreated, and laid it in the forest, on top of the ground, covering it with brushwood and birch bark.

So it lay, forgotten by everyone, for 32 years. But in 1577, the relics of Saint Artemius were miraculously found incorrupt and became famous for many miracles and healings of diseases. Thus, during the malignant fever that spread in the Dvina region, the Verkolsky villager Kalinnik, taking birch bark from the tomb of St. Artemy, hung it on the cross on the chest of his dying son,...