November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Updated on Dec 10, 2023

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Nov. 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 25

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 24, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 11.

Feasts

Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple.

Saints

Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome (101)

Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259) ( see also: November 25 - Greek )

Saint Hermogenes, Bishop of Agrigentum (c. 260) or (c.824)

Martyrs Procopius and Christopher, by the sword (274)

Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305) ( see also: November 25 - Greek )

Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (305) ( see also: November 25 - Greek )

Martyrs Philoumenos and Christopher, by the sword.

Martyr Eugene (Eugenios), buried alive inside a wall.

Martyr Chrysogenes (Chrysogonos), in Aquileia in Italy, under Diocletian.

Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)

Martyr Alexander at Corinth (360)

Martyr Theodore, at Antioch, by beheading (361)

Venerable Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (5th century)

Venerable Karion.

Venerable Mark of Triglia.

Venerable Gregory, monk of the monastery of the Golden Rock (Chryse Petra) in Pontus.

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Felicissimus, a martyr who suffered in Perugia in Italy, probably under Diocletian (c. 303)

Saint Firmina, a virgin-martyr in Amelia (Ameria) in Umbria under Diocletian (c. 303)

Saint Crescentian, a martyr in Rome with Sts Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus, under Maxentius (309)

Venerable Protasius, Bishop of Milan (352)

Saint Romanus of Le Mans (Romanus of Bordeaux), a Gallo-Roman priest who converted the pagans living at the mouth of the Gironde (385)

Saint Minver (Menefrida), Virgin of Cornwall (5th century).

Saint Kenan (Cianan), first bishop in Ireland to build his Cathedral, at Damleag or Duleek in Meath, of stone (c. 500)

Venerable Portianus of Arthone, a slave who became a monk and then Abbot of Miranda in Auvergne in France (527 or 533)

Saint Colmán of Cloyne, first Bishop of Cloyne (c. 600)

Saint Leopardinus, monk and Abbot of St Symphorian of Vivaris in Berry in France, murdered and venerated as a martyr (7th century)

Saint Bieuzy, born in Britain, he followed St Gildas to Brittany and was martyred there (7th century)

Saint Eanflæd (Eanfleda), daughter of the holy King Edwin of Northumbria and St Æthelburh of Kent, Abbess at Whitby Abbey jointly with her daughter Ælfflæd (c. 700)

Saint Marinus, a monk at Maurienne in Savoy, and afterwards a hermit near the monastery of Chandor where he was martyred by the Saracens (731)

Saints Flora and Maria, two virgin-martyrs in Cordoba in Spain who gave themselves up to the Moors and were beheaded by order of Abderrahman II (851)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Venerable Mastridia of Alexandria (1060)

Martyr Philothea of Romania (1060) (see also" December 7)

Hieromartyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238)

Venerable Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)

St. Nicodemus the Younger of Philokalos monastery in Thessaloniki (c. 1305)

Venerable Mercurius, the Faster of the Kievan Caves, far caves (14th century)

Venerable Simon, Abbot of Soiga Monastery, Vologda (1562)

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Eugraphus Evarestov, Archpriest (1919)

New Hieromartyrs Eugene and Michael, Priests (1937)

Virgin-martyr Anysia (1937)

New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Alexis, John, Cornelius, and Metrophanes, Priests (1937)

Other commemorations

Commemoration of Hieroconfessor Nikita (Lekhan) of Poltava and Kharkiv (1985)

References

November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia

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