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November 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Nov. 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 5

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 22.

Saints

  • Saint Abimelech of Gerar the Righteous, who hosted Abraham, who had presented his wife Sarah as his sister (Genesis 20).
  • Apostles Hermas, Patrobas, Linus, Gaius and Philologus, of the Seventy (1st century)
  • Hierymartyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter, both disciples of Titus (1st century)
  • Martyr Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea (361)
  • Saint Sylvia, mother of St. Gregory the Dialogist (6th century) (see also: November 3)
  • Venerable Joannicius the Great of Bithynia (834)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saints Vitalis and Agricola, martyrs in Bologna in Italy, under Diocletian (c. 304)
  • Saint Modesta, niece of St Modoald in France and first Abbess of Oehren in Trier in Germany (680)
  • Saint Proculus, Bishop of Autun in France martyred by invading Huns (c. 717)
  • Saint Clarus, a hermit near Rouen, murdered in the village of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (c. 875)
  • Saint Birnstan of Winchester(Beornstan), Bishop of Winchester in England, who loved to pray for the departed (c. 934)
  • Saint Gregory of Burtscheid, a Greek monk from Cerchiara in Calabria in Italy, founder of Burtscheid Abbey (999)
  • Saint Emeric of Hungary, son of St Stephen, the first Christian King of Hungary, he was a disciple of St Gerard Sagredo of Czanad, Confessor (1031)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Luke, Bishop of Novgorod (1059)
  • Holy and Righteous Ioane, Stepane, and Isaiah the Georgians.
  • Saint John III Doukas Vatatzes the Merciful, Emperor of Nicaea (1254)
  • Venerable Mercurius the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (14th century) (see also: November 24)
  • Blessed Simon of Yurievets and Zharki, Fool-for-Christ (1584)
  • Saint Nicander, founder of Gorodnoezersk Monastery (Novgorod) (1603)
  • Saint Paul (Konyuskevych), Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Siberia (1768)
  • Venerable George (Karslidis) of Drama the Confessor (1959) (see also: October 24 / November 6 - Russian)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Vinogradov, Confessor and Priest (1931)
  • Virgin-martyr Eugenia (Lysova), nun (1935)
  • New Hieromartyr Michael Edlinsky, Archpriest, of Kiev (1937) (see also: February 23)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexander Petropavlovsky, Priest (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Ismael Bazilevsky, Priest (1941)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Naaration of the destruction of Jerusalem (587 BC) in the Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, and on the ecstasy of Abimelech (= Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, of Jeremiah 38:7).
  • Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Sarov Monastery (1817)

    • References

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