November 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Nov 21, 2023

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Nov. 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 18

All fixed commemorations below are observed on November 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 17, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 4.

Saints

Saint Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo-Caesarea (266)

Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Hamah (282)

Martyrs Zachariah the Cobbler and his wife, Mary (3rd century)

Martyrs Gregory, Victor, and Geminus of Heracleon in Thrace (304)

150 philosophers converted by St. Catherine, and who suffered in Alexandria (305)

Venerable Longinus of Egypt (4th century)

Martyr Sak (Saktus, Sanctus) the Persian.

Saints Maximian of Constantinople (434) and Gennadius of Constantinople (471), Patriarchs of Constantinople. (see also: April 21)

Saint John the Cobbler of Olumba, Cairo, and Sinai (7th century)

Venerable Lazarus the iconographer of Constantinople (857)

Great-Martyr Gobron (Michael) and 133 soldiers of Georgia (914)

Venerable John of Olympus (John Dermokaitis), in Bithynia (c. 919-944)

Venerable Justin.

Martyrs Acisclus and Victoria, at Córdoba in Hispania (304)

Saint Eugene, a deacon of the Church of Florence with Bishop Zenobius (422)

Saint Anianus of Orleans (Aignan), fifth Bishop of Orleans in France (453)

Saint Gregory of Tours, Bishop of Tours (594), and with him Venerable Aredius, Abbot of Limoges and Venerable Vulfolaic, stylite of Trier, Gaul.

Saint Namasius (Naamat, Namat, Namatius), twenty-second Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 599)

Venerable Hilda, Abbess of Whitby Abbey (680)

Venerable Gennadius, Abbot of Vatopedi, Mt. Athos (14th century)

Venerable Nikon, Abbot of Radonezh, disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh (1426)

Venerable Archimandrite Sebastian (Dabovich) of San Francisco and Jackson, Enlightener and Apostle of the Church in America (1940)

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