November 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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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

Saints

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)

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