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24 November

43 commemorations of 24 November in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 7 December of the civil calendar.

In the map: St. Clement of Rome (d. c. 101)

Feasts

  • Afterfeast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Templeoca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com

Saints

  • Hieromartyr Clement I, Pope of Rome (101)Ὁ Ἅγιος Κλήμης ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἐπίσκοπος Ρώμηςorthochristian.com · synaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Hermogenes, Bishop of Agrigentum (c. 260) or (c. 824)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐρμογένης Ἐπίσκοπος Ἀκραγαντίνωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Procopius and Christopher, by the sword (274)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Προκόπιος καὶ Χριστόφορος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Augusta (Faustina) the Empress, Porphyrius Stratelates, and 200 soldiers at Alexandria with Great-martyr Catherine (305)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyrs Philoumenos and Christopher, by the swordΟἱ Ἅγιοι Φιλούμενος καὶ Χριστόφορος οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Martyr Eugene (Eugenios), buried alive inside a wallὉ Ἅγιος Εὐγένιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Martyr Chrysogenes (Chrysogonos), in Aquileia in Italy, under Diocletian (4th century)Ὁ Ἅγιος Χρυσόγονος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · orthodoxengland.org.uk · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Hieromartyr Peter I, Archbishop of Alexandria (311)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρείαςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Martyr Alexander at Corinth (360)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Martyr Theodore, at Antioch, by beheading (361)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr
  • Venerable Carion (Karion) the Egyptian of Scetis (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Καρίωνsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · johnsanidopoulos.com
  • Venerable Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (5th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάλχοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Mark of TrigliaὉ Ὅσιος Μᾶρκος ὁ Τριγλινὸςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Venerable Gregory, founder of the monastery of the Golden Rock (Chryse Petra) in PontusὉ Ὅσιος Γρηγόριοςsynaxarion.gr · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Mastridia of Alexandria (1060)oca.org · pravenc.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Martyr Philothea of Romania (1060)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Hieromartyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238)Ὁ Ἅγιος Μερκούριος ὁ ἐν Σμολένσκη (Ρῶσος, † 238 μ.Χ.)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · ecclesia.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Nikodemos (Nicodemus) the Younger of Philokalos Monastery in Thessaloniki (c. 1305)saint.gr · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Mercurius the Faster of the Kievan Caves, far caves (14th century)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
  • Venerable Simon, Abbot of Soiga Monastery, Vologda (1562)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Eugraphus Evarestov, Archpriest (1919)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyrs Eugene Yakovlev and Michael Bogoroditsky, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyrs Alexander Levitsky, Alexis Tyutyunov, John Nikolsky, Cornelius Udilovich, and Metrophanes Kornitsky, Priests (1937)pravenc.ru · calendar.rop.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Virgin-martyr Anysia (1937)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 Felicissimus, a martyr who suffered in Perugia in Italy, probably under Diocletian (c. 303)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Firmina, a virgin-martyr in Amelia (Ameria) in Umbria under Diocletian (c. 303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Crescentian, a martyr in Rome with Sts Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus, under Maxentius (309)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Protasius, Bishop of Milan (352)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Romanus of Le Mans (Romanus of Bordeaux), a Gallo-Roman priest who converted the pagans living at the mouth of the Gironde (385)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Minver (Menefrida), Virgin of Cornwall (5th century)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Saint Kenan (Cianan), first bishop in Ireland to build his Cathedral, at Damleag or Duleek in Meath, of stone (c. 500)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Venerable Portianus of Arthone, Gaul, a slave who became a monk and then Abbot of Miranda in Auvergne in France (527 or 533)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Colmán of Cloyne, first Bishop of Cloyne (c. 600)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Leopardinus, monk and Abbot of St Symphorian of Vivarais in Berry in France, murdered and venerated as a martyr (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Bieuzy, born in Britain, he followed St Gildas to Brittany and was martyred there (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Eanflæd (Eanfleda), daughter of the holy King Edwin of Northumbria and St Æthelburh of Kent, Abbess at Whitby Abbey jointly with her daughter Ælfflæd (c. 700)Stanton, Menology of England and Wales · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Marinus, a monk at Maurienne in Savoy, and afterwards a hermit near the monastery of Chandor where he was martyred by the Saracens (731)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saints Flora and Maria, two virgin-martyrs in Cordoba in Spain who gave themselves up to the Moors and were beheaded by order of Abderrahman II (851)orthodoxengland.org.uk

Other commemorations

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

  • Repose of Elder Ephraim Moraitis of Philotheou and Arizona (2019)orthochristian.com · johnsanidopoulos.com · pravoslavie.ru

The list is November 24 (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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