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