November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For November 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 24.

Saints

• Virgin-martyrs Tecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Polactia, Euphrosyne, and Athanasia, of Ancyra (303)^[1][2][3] (see also: May 18)
• Martyr Nikander, by the sword.^[4][5]
• Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (c. 350)^{[1][2][3][5][6][7]}
• Venerable Luke of Tauromenium, monk, of Sicily (820)^{[1][2][3][5][8][9]}
• Saint Demetrianus, Bishop of Cytheria on Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 915)^{[1][2][5][10][note 2]}
• Blessed Paul of Corinth, Fool-for-Christ.^{[5][11][note 3]}

Pre-Schism Western Saints

• Saint Felix of Thynissa, a martyr who suffered in Thynissa near Hippo (Bone) in North Africa.^{[12][note 4][note 5]}
• Saint Illtyd (Illtut), abbot, of Llanilltyd Fawr, Wales (505)^{[1][2][12][14][note 6]}
• Saint Leonard of Noblac, Gaul (c. 559)^{[1][2][12][note 7][note 8]}
• Saint Leonianus, a hermit near Autun (c. 570)^{[12][note 9]}
• Saint Felix of Fondi, a monk at a monastery in Fondi in the south of Italy (6th century)^[12][13]
• Saint Severus, Bishop of Barcelona in Spain (633)^{[12][note 10][note 11]}
• Saint Edwen, she is the patron saint of Llanedwen in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)^[12]
• Saint Efflam, born in Britain, he went to Brittany where he became abbot of a monastery he had founded (c. 700)^[12]
• Saint Winnoc, Abbot, of Flanders (716)^{[1][2][12][15][note 12][note 13]}
• Saint Cowey of Portaferry, Abbot, of Moville Monastery (8th century)^[1][2]
• Saint Erlafrid, founder of the monastery of Hirschau in Germany, where he became a monk (c. 830)^[12]
• Saint Stephen of Apt, Bishop of Apt in the south of France in 1010 (1046)^[12]

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

• Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn, founder of Khutyn Monastery, Novgorod (1192)^{[1][2][3][5][16][17][18][19]}
• Saint Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)^{[1][2][3][5][19][20]}
• Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)^{[1][2][3][18][21]}
• Saint Barlaam of Keret, Karelia (16th century)^{[1][2][3][18]} (see also: January 15)
• Venerable Agapios the Presbyter (Asimakis Leonardos) (1812)^{[5][22][note 14]}
• Saint Elias Fondaminsky of Paris (1942)^[1][2]

New Martyrs and Confessors

• New-Martyr Gregory the Cross-bearer (1936)^[2][23]
• New Hieromartyr Nicetas (Delektorsky), Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsk (1937)^{[1][2][3][18][note 15]}
• New Hieromartyr Barlaam (Nikolsky), Abbot, of Andreyevskoe, Moscow (1937)^{[1][2][3][18]}
• New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Vladimirov), Hieromonk of the St. Michael Skovorodsky Monastery, Novgorod (1937)^{[1][2][3][18]}
• New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Gur), Hieromonk, of Lytkarino, Moscow (1937)^{[1][2][3][18]}
• New Hieromartyrs Anatoly Berzhitsky, Arsenius Troitsky,^{[note 16]} Nicholas Dvoretsky, Nicholas Protasov, Constantine Lyubomydrov, Priests (1937)^[2][3][18]
• Virgin-martyrs Nina (Shuvalova), and Seraphima (Gorshkova), nuns (1937)^{[2][3][18][23]}
• New Hieromartyr Basil Krylov, Priest (1938)^[2][3][18]
• Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Sarov:^[1][2][23]

• Anatole, Basil, Hierotheus, Isaac, and Rufinus (1938)

Other Commemorations

• Commemoration of the Sarov Elders:^[1][23]

• Abbot Pachomius (1794); Hieroschemamonk Joseph (1785); Hieromonks Pitirim (1789) and Matthew (1795); and Monk Joachim (1802).

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Notes

References

Sources

• November 6/November 19. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• November 19 / November 6. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• November 6. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• Dr. Alexander Roman. November. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 83.
• The Sixth Day of the Month of November. Orthodoxy in China.
• November 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. p. 343.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 526-528.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 6 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (Greek) Συναξαριστής. 6 Νοεμβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• (Greek) 06/11/2015. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

• (Russian) 19 ноября (6 ноября). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (Russian) 6 ноября по старому стилю / 19 ноября по новому стилю. Русская Православная Церковь - Православный церковный календарь на 2015 год.

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