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November 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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November 17 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective November 17 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saint Gregory the Wonderworker of Neo-Caesarea (266)

Hieromartyr Basil, Bishop of Hamah (282)

Martyrs Zachariah (Zacharias) the Cobbler and his wife, Mary (3rd century)

Martyrs Gregory, Victor, and Geminus of Heracleon in Thrace (304)

150 philosophers converted by St. Catherine, and who suffered in Alexandria (305)

Venerable Longinus of Egypt (4th century)

Martyr Sak (Saktus, Sanctus) the Persian.

Saint Maximus (Maximian), Archbishop of Constantinople (434) (see also: April 21)

Saint Gennadius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (471)

Saint John the Cobbler of Olumba, Cairo, and Sinai (7th century)

Venerable Lazarus the iconographer of Constantinople (857)

Great-Martyr Gobron (Michael) and 133 soldiers of Georgia (914)

Venerable John of Olympus (John Dermokaitis), in Bithynia (c. 919–944)

Martyrs Acisclus and Victoria, at Córdoba in Hispania (304)

Saint Eugene, a deacon of the Church of Florence with Bishop Zenobius (422)

Saint Anianus of Orleans (Aignan), fifth Bishop of Orleans in France (453)

Saint Gregory of Tours, Bishop of Tours (594), and with him Venerable Aredius, Abbot of Limoges and Venerable Vulfolaic, stylite of Trier, Gaul.

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