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November 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 19 by Eastern 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-martyr Manatho.^[1] (see also: October 20)
• Virgin-martyrs Tecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Polactia, Euphrosyne, Julia, Euphrasia, Faina, and Athanasia, of Ancyra (303)^[2][3][4] (see also: May 18)
• Martyr Nikander, by the sword.^{[5][6][note 2]}
• Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (c. 350)^{[2][3][4][6][7][8]} (see also: June 7 - West)
• Venerable Luke of Tauromenium, monk, of Sicily (820)^{[2][3][4][6][9][10]}
• Saint Demetrianus, Bishop of Cytheria on Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 915)^{[2][3][6][11][note 3]}
• Blessed Paul of Corinth, Fool-for-Christ.^{[6][12][note 4]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Felix of Thynissa, a martyr who suffered in Thynissa near Hippo (Bone) in North Africa.^{[13][note 5][note 6]}
• Saint Illtyd (Illtut), abbot, of Llanilltyd Fawr, Wales (505)^{[2][3][13][15][note 7]}
• Saint Leonard of Noblac, Gaul (c. 559)^{[2][3][13][note 8][note 9]}
• Saint Leonianus, a hermit near Autun (c. 570)^{[13][note 10]}
• Saint Felix, a monk at a monastery in Fondi in the south of Italy (6th century)^[13][14]
• Saint Severus, Bishop of Barcelona in Spain (633)^{[13][note 11][note 12]}
• Saint Edwen, she is the patron saint of Llanedwen in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)^[13]
• Saint Efflamm, born in Britain, he went to Brittany where he became abbot of a monastery he had founded (c. 700)^[13]
• Saint Winnoc, Abbot, of Flanders (716)^{[2][3][13][16][note 13][note 14]}
• Saint Cowey of Portaferry, Abbot, of Moville Monastery (8th century)^[2][3]
• Saint Erlafrid, founder of Hirsau Abbey in Germany, where he became a monk (c. 830)^[13]
• Saint Stephen of Apt, Bishop of Apt in the south of France in 1010 (1046)^[13]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn, founder of Khutyn Monastery, Novgorod (1192)^{[2][3][4][6][17][18][19]} (see also: June 6 )
• Saint Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)^{[2][3][4][6][20]}
• Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)^{[2][3][4][19][21]}
• Saint Barlaam of Keret, Karelia (16th century)^{[2][3][4][19][note 15]} (see also: January 15 )
• Venerable Agapios the Presbyter (Asimakis Leonardos) (1812)^{[6][22][note 16]}
• Saint Elias Fondaminsky of Paris (1942)^[2][3] (see also: July 20 )

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Sarov Elders:^[2][23]

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

Icon gallery

• 
  St. Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople.
• 
  St. Illtyd, abbot, of Llanilltyd Fawr, Wales.
• 
  St. Peter and St. Leonard of Noblac.
• 
  St. Winnoc of Flanders.
• 
  Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn.
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  St. Herman, Archbishop of Kazan.
• 
  Saint Barlaam of Keret, Karelia.
• 
  New Hieromartyr Nicetas (Delektorsky), Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsk.

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

Russian Sources

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