November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
# November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 27.

## Saints

* Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius of Ephesus (284-305)
* Venerable Matrona of Perge, Abbess of Constantinople (492)
* Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica (c. 305)
* Martyrs Narses and Artemon, by the sword. (see also: December 9 )
* Martyrs Christopher and Maura, by the sword.
* The Four Crowned Martyrs:

   * Claudius, Castor, Sempronian, and Nicostratus, of Pannonia (c. 306) (see also: November 8 - West)
* Venerable Helladius, monk.
* Venerable John the Short of Egypt (John Kolobos, John the Dwarf) (c. 407)
* Martyr Anthony of Apamea (5th century)
* Venerables Eustolia (610) and Sosipatra (625), of Constantinople.
* Venerable Theoctiste of Lesbos, of the Monastery Panagia "Ekatontapyliani" (Hundred Doors) in Paros (881)
* Venerable Symeon Metaphrastes ('the Translator') of Constantinople (960)
* Venerable Saints Euthymius (990) and Neophytus (c. 1118), founders of Docheiariou, Mt. Athos.

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Agrippinus of Naples (Arpinus), Bishop of Naples (2nd or 3rd century)
* Saint Ursinus of Bourges, first Bishop of Bourges in France (3rd century)
* Saint Benignus of Armagh (Benen), Bishop of Armagh (468)
* Saint Pabo, founder of the monastery later called Llanbabo, in Anglesey, Wales (c. 510)
* Saint Vitonus (Vanne, Vaune), Bishop of Verdun (c. 525)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Onesiphorus the Confessor, of the Kiev Caves (1148)
* Saint Nektarios (Kephalas) of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis and Wonderworker of Aegina (1920)

### New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Parthenius (Bryansky), Bishop of Ananyevsk (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Alexis (Zadvornov), Hieromonk of the Afanasiev Convent, Yaroslavl (1937)
* New Hieromartyrs Constantine Cherepanov, Demetrius Rusinov, Nestor Panin, Theodore Chichkanov, Constantine Nemeshaev, Victor Klimov, Elias Rylko and Paul Ansimov, Priests (1937)
* New Hieromartyr Joseph Schensnovich, Deacon (1937)

## Other commemorations

* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who Is Quick to Hear" (Gorgoepēkoos) of Docheiariou, Mt. Athos (10th century)
* Repose of Righteous Eldress Matrona of Penza (1937)

## Icon gallery

* Venerable Matrona of Perge, Abbess of Constantinople.
* St. John the Short of Egypt (John Kolobos).
* St. Benignus of Armagh, St. Patrick's Psalm singer.
* St. Nektarios of Aegina.
* St. Nektarios of Aegina.
* New Hieromartyr Parthenius (Bryansky), Bishop of Ananyevsk.
* New Hieromartyr Paul Ansimov, Priest.
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who Is Quick to Hear".
