# November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 25
All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 7 by Eastern 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) (see also: November 23 - Western Orthodox use. And: November 25 - Russian use)
* 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) (Russia only. See also: November 25 - rest of Orthodox Church)
* Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (305) (Russia only - see also: November 25 - rest of Orthodox Church)
* Martyrs Philoumenos and Christopher, by the sword.
* Martyr Eugene (Eugenios), buried alive inside a wall.
* Martyr Chrysogenes (Chrysogonos), in Aquileia in Italy, under Diocletian (4th century)
* Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)
* Martyr Alexander at Corinth (360)
* Martyr Theodore, at Antioch, by beheading (361)
* Venerable Karion of Scetis (4th century) (see also: December 5)
* Venerable Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (5th century) (see also: March 26)
* 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 (America) in Umbria under Diocletian (c. 303)
* Saint Crescentian, a martyr in Rome with Sts Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus, under Maxentius (309)
* Saint 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 Vivarais 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)(see also: November 6)
* 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 Yakovlev and Michael Bogoroditsky, Priests (1937)
* New Hieromartyrs Alexander Levitsky, Alexis Tyutyunov, John Nikolsky, Cornelius Udilovich, and Metrophanes Kornitsky, Priests (1937)
* Virgin-martyr Anysia (1937)

## Other commemorations

* Repose of Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona (2019)

## Icon gallery

* Translation of the relics of Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome.
* Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia.
* Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria.
* Vision of Peter of Alexandria.
* Reliquary of Venerable Protasius, Bishop of Milan.
* St. Colmán of Cloyne.
* Hieromartyr Mercurius of Smolensk.
* New Hieromartyr Eugraphus Evarestov.