November 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Oct. 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Nov. 2

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Nov. 14 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia and their mother Venerable Theodota of Mesopotamia (c.287)^[1][2]
• Saint Benignus of Dijon (2nd/3rd c.)^[3]
• Martyr Mary the Slave Girl (c.117-138)^{[3][note 1]}
• Saint Austromoine (Austremonius, Stremoine), first Bishop of Clermont-Ferrand, the "apostle of Auvergne" (c.250)^[3]
• Martyrs Caesarius of Africa, a Deacon of Africa, together with with Julian, a local presbyter, martyred at Terracina in Italy (c.284-305)^[3]
• Saint Maturinus (Mathurin), confessor, French exorcist and missionary (c.300)^[3]
• Martyrs Cyrenia and Juliana in Cilicia (305)^[5][6]
• Hieromartyr John the Bishop and James the Presbyter of Persia (345)^[7]
• Saint Marcellus, 9th Bishop of Paris (c.430)^[3]
• Saint Amabilis of Riom (475)^[3]
• Saint Cledwyn (Clydwyn), patron saint of Llangedwyn in Clwyd in Wales (5th c.)^[3]
• Saint Pabiali of Wales, patron-saint of Partypallai in Wales (5th/6th c.)^{[3][note 2]}
• Saint Dingad of Llandingat (5th c.)^[3]
• Saint Vigor, disciple of St Vedast, became Bishop of Bayeux, resolutely opposed paganism (c.537)^[3]
• Martyr Hermeningilda the Goth of Spain, prince (586)^[8][9]
• Saint Gwythian (Gothian, Gocianus) of Cornwall (6th c.)^[10]
• Saint Cadfan, Abbot of Tywyn and Bardsey (6th c.)^[3]
• Saint Caillin, a disciple of St Aidan of Ferns in Ireland (6th c.)^[3]
• Saint Ceitho, one of five brothers, all saints in Wales (6th c.)^[3]
• Saint Licinius of Angers (Lesin, Lezin), chosen Bishop of Angers in 586 and consecrated by St Gregory of Tours (c.616)^[3]
• Saint Caesarius, Bishop of Clermont in France (c.627)^[3]
• Saint Floribert (Florbert), Abbot of monasteries in Ghent, Mont-Blandin and Saint-Bavon in Belgium (c. 660)^[3]
• Saint Genesius of Lyon (c.679)^[3]
• Saint Severinus, a monk who lived as a hermit in Tivoli in Italy (c.699)^{[3][note 3]}
• Martyrs Caesarius, Dacius, Sabbas, Sabinian, Agrippa, Adrian, and Thomas at Damascus (7th c.)^[11]
• Saint Theolepte, martyr.^{[12][note 4]}
• Martyrs Cyprian and Juliana^[13]
• Saint Germanus of Montfort, born in Montfort in France, became a monk at the monastery of Savigny, reposed as a hermit (c.906-1000)^[3]
• Venerable James of Mount Athos and his two disciples James the Deacon and Dionysius the Monk (1520)^[14][15]
• Saint David of Euboia (1589)^[16]
• New Virgin-Martyr Helen of Sinope (18th c.)^[17]
• Saint Cosmas of Verkhoturye (1704)^[18]
• New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Theodore, priests (1918)^[19]
• New Hieromartyr Sergius (Zverev), Archbishop of Elets and Melitopol (1937)^[18]
• New Hieromartyrs Alexander and Demetrius, priests, and Virgin-martyr Elizabeth (1937)^[19]
• Martyr Peter (1941)^[19]

Other Commemorations

• Translation of the relics of Boniface, enlightener of Germany (755)^[10]
• Repose of Elder Hilarion of Valaam and Sarov (1841)^[18]

Notes

1. ^ St. Mary, a servant girl. Being accused of professing the Christian religion in the time of Emperor Hadrian, she was subjected to cruel scourging, to torture on the rack, and the lacerating of her body with iron hooks, and thus completed her martyrdom.^[4]
2. ^ See also: Peibio Clafrog.
3. ^ His relics are in the church of St Laurence in Tivoli.
4. ^ Mentioned in Parisian Codex 259, sheet 2a.

References

1. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κοσμᾶς καὶ Δαμιανός οἱ Ἀνάργυροι καὶ Θαυματουργοί. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
2. ^ Wonderworker and Unmercenary Cosmas of Asia Minor. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} November 1. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
4. ^ November 1. The Roman Martyrology.
5. ^ Οἱ Ἁγίες Κυριαίνα καὶ Ἰουλιανὴ οἱ Μάρτυρες. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. ^ Martyr Cyrenia in Cilicia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
7. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἰωάννης καὶ Ἰάκωβος οἱ Ἱερομάρτυρες. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
8. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐρμινίγγελδος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. ^ Martyr Hermeningilda the Goth of Spain. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
10. ^ ^{a b} November 1. An English Orthodox Calendar.
11. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Καισάρειος, Δάσιος οἱ Μάρτυρες καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῶν. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
12. ^ Ἡ Ἁγία Θεολήπτη. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
13. ^ Οἱ Ἅγιοι Κυπριανὸς καὶ Ἰουλιανὴ οἱ Μάρτυρες. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
14. ^ Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰάκωβος ὁ νέος Ὁσιομάρτυρας καὶ οἱ δύο μαθητές του Ἰάκωβος ὁ Διάκονος καὶ Διονύσιος ὁ Μοναχὸς. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. ^ Monkmartyr James of Prodromou on Mt Athos. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
16. ^ Ὁ Ὅσιος Δαβὶδ ὁ ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
17. ^ Ἡ Ἁγία Ἑλένη ἡ Παρθενομάρτυς ἐκ Σινώπης. 1 Νοεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. ^ ^{a b c} November 1/14. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
19. ^ ^{a b c} November 14 / November 1. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).

Sources

• November 1/14. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• November 14 / November 1. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• Complete List of Saints. Protection of the Mother of God Church (POMOG).
• November 1. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• November 1. An English Orthodox Calendar.
• November 1. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• November 1. The Roman Martyrology.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (Greek) 1 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.