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November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

November 10 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 10 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.

Saints

Apostles of the Seventy Disciples:

Erastus of Paneas, Olympas, Herodion of Patras, Sosipater of Iconium, Quartus and Tertius (Terence) of Iconium (1st century)

Hieromartyr Demetrianos of Antioch, Bishop of Antioch, martyred in Persia (256)

Martyr Orestes of Cappadocia (304)

Martyr Orion, by being buried alive

Martyr Kalliopios, by the sword

Martyr Niro, by the sword

Hieromartyr Milos (Miles) the Wonderworker, Bishop in Persia, and his disciples, Martyrs Euores the Presbyter and Seboes the Deacon (c. 341) martyrs of Persia under Shapur II (see also: October 20)

Venerable Martin the Bishop met his end in peace

Saint Martin of Terracina, Bishop of Terracina (c. 4th century) (see also: November 12)

Venerable Nonnus, Bishop of Heliopolis, and the catechist of Saint Pelagia (471)

Ten Martyrs of Gaza, at Jerusalem (638):

Callinius, Imerius, Diasimus, Theodore, Stephen, Peter, Paul, Theodore, John, and John

Venerable Theocteristus (Theosteriktos), Abbot of Symbola Monastery on Mount Olympus, Bithynia (8th century) (see also: February 17)

Great Martyr Constantine-Kakhi, grand prince of Kartli, Georgia (852)

Pre-Schism Western saints

Saint Probus I, the sixth Bishop of Ravenna (c. 175)

Saint Eucharius, first Bishop of Trier (3rd century)

Saints Tiberius, Modestus and Florentia, martyrs under Diocletian at Agde in the south of France (303)

Saint Leo the Great, Pope of Rome, Confessor (461) (see also: February 18 - East)

Saint Monitor, twelfth Bishop of Orleans in France, Confessor (c. 490)

Saint Áed mac Bricc, a disciple of St Illadan at Rathlihen in Offaly in Ireland, Bishop (589)

Saint Elaeth the King, a Briton driven into Wales by the Picts, he became a monk with St Seiriol in Anglesey in Wales (6th century)

Saint Justus of Canterbury, the fourth Archbishop of Canterbury, Confessor (627–631)

Saint Adelin of Séez (Adelheim), a monk and Abbot of Saint-Calais, then Bishop of Séez in France (c. 910)

Saint Guerembaldus, a monk at Hirschau in Germany, who out of humility refused to become Bishop of Spire (965)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

Venerable Arsenios the Cappadocian (1924) (see also: October 28 - O.S.)

New martyrs and confessors

New Hieromartyr Niphon (Niphont) Vyblov, Hieromonk, of Berezovy Khutor, Saratov and New Martyr Alexander Medem (1931)

New Hieromartyr Boris Semenov, Deacon (1931–1934)

New Hieromartyrs Procopius Titov, Archbishop of Kherson, Dionisius Shchegolev, Priest, John Skadovsky, Priest, and Peter Pavlushkov, Archpriest, of Tula (1937)

New Hieromartyrs Augustine Belyaev, Archbishop of Kaluga, and with him (1937):

John Speransky, Archpriest, of Kaluga

Ioannicius Dmitriev, Archimandrite, of the St. George Monastery, Meshchevsk

Seraphim Gushchin, Hieromonk of Optina Monastery

New Martyrs Alexis (Alexei) Gorbachev, Apollonius Babichev, and Michael Arefeyev (1937)

New Martyr Nicholas Smirnov (1937)

New Virgin-martyr Anna Ostroglazova (1937–1939)

New Martyrs Olga Maslennikova (1941) and Theoctista Chentsova (1942)

Venerable New Hieromartyr Visarion (Toia) of Lainici, Archimandrite, abbot of Lainici Monastery (1951)

Other commemorations

Commemoration of the beginning of the torture of Great-martyr George upon the wheel (303)

Founding of the Church of Saint George (1891)

Translation of the relics (1935) of St. Gregory, Bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150), to Lesvos (On the Sunday between November 11–17 each year)

Glorification of St. Matthew, monk, of Yaransk, Wonderworker (1997)