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18 November

22 commemorations of 18 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 1 December of the civil calendar.

Saints

  • Great-martyr Platon of Ancyra (302 or 306)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πλάτωναςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Hieromartyr Romanus the Deacon of Caesarea, with Child-martyr Barulas of Antioch (303)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ῥωμανόςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · saint.gr · orthochristian.com · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Romanus, who suffered under Maximian, at Antioch (304 or 305)pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Zacchaeus the Deacon and Alphaeus the Reader, of Caesarea in Palestine (303, 304, or 307)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ζακχαῖος καὶ Ἀλφαῖοςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable BasilὉ Ὅσιος Βασίλειοςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · ecclesia.gr

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Saint Helen Devochkina, Abbess of Novodevichy Convent, Moscow (1547)pravoslavie.ru
  • New Martyr Anastasius of Paramythia in Epirus, by beheading (1750), and Saint Daniel (Musa) of Corfu (18th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀναστάσιος ὁ Νεομάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · saint.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Saint Nectarie (Crețu) the Protopsaltes, of Prodromou Skete (Nectarius the Vlach), hesychastic monk and a great chanter called the 'Nightingale of... (1899)doxologia.ro · ec-patr.org · orthochristian.com
  • New Hieroconfessor Nicholas Vinogradov, Archpriest, of Malakhovo, Yaroslavl (1948)pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com

Saints of the West before the Schism

Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.

  • Saint Maximus of Mainz, nineteenth Bishop of Mainz in Germany from 354 to 378, who suffered greatly at the hands of the Ariansorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyrs Oriculus and Companions, martyrs under the Arian Vandals near Carthage in North Africa (c. 430)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Nazarius, a monk and Abbot of Lérins in France (c. 450)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Mabyn (Mabena), nun of Cornwall (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Saint Mawes (Maudetus, Maudez), Bishop in Cornwall and Brittany (5th or 6th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Keverne (Akeveranus), a friend of Saint Kieran or Saint Piran in Cornwall (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Mummolus (Mumbolus, Momleolus, Momble), born in Ireland, he was a companion of St. Fursey whom he succeeded as Abbot of Lagny in France (c. 690)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Amandus (708) and Anselm (c. 750), Abbots of Lérins Abbeyorthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Constant, priest-hermit at Lough Erne in Ireland (777)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Odo of Cluny (942)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

Other commemorations

Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.

  • Synaxis of All Saints of Estoniaholytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Translation of the relics of St. Cosmas (Kosmas) the Protos of Vatopedi (1276)saint.gr
  • Repose of Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly Sidorenko of Glinsk and Tbilisi (1992)pravoslavie.ru

The list is November 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.

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