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November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
November 2 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 2 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
The Holy Senators of Sebasteia, martyrs of senatorial rank, martyred under Licinius, by fire (c. 315)
Martyrs Eudoxios (Eudoxius), Agapios (Agapius), Atticus (Attikos), Marinus, Oceanus, Eustratios, Karterios (Carterius), Nikopolitianos (Nictopolion), Styrax (Styriacus, Istucarius), and Tobias (Pactobius), at Sebaste, martyred under Licinius (c. 315) (see also: November 3)
Women-Martyrs Kyriaki (Cyriaca), Domnina and Domna, by the sword.
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, Anempodistus, and 7,000 with them, of Persia, during the reign of King Sapor II (341)
Saint Marcian of Cyrrhus, monk in Syria, confessor (c. 388)
Saint Anthony the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica (844)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Justus of Trieste, sentenced to death by drowning (293)
Martyrs Publius, Victor, Hermes and Papias, in North Africa.
Saint Victorinus of Pettau, Bishop of Pettau in Styria in Austria and the earliest exegete in the West (304)
Saint Erc of Slane, Bishop of Slane, Ireland (512) (see also: October 31)
Saint Ambrose, abbot of the monastery of St. Moritz in Agaunum in Switzerland (532 or 582).
Saint George of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in Gaul (c. 699)
Saints Baya (Bava) and Maura, Anchoresses in Scotland; St Bava guided St Maura and the latter became abbess of a convent (c. 10th century)
Saint Amicus, born near Camerino in Italy, he became a priest, then a hermit and finally a monk at St Peter's in Fonte Avellana (c. 1045)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (Olonets) (16th century)
Archimandrite Gabriel (Urgebadze) of Georgia, Confessor and Fool-for-Christ (1995) (New style date for old calendar feast see: October 20)
New martyrs and confessors
New Hieromartyrs Bishop Victorin and Priest Basil Luzgin, of Glazomicha (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Ananias Aristov of Perm, and Constantine Organov, Priests (1918)
Other commemorations
Icon of God of Shuya-Smolensk (Shuyskaya-Smolenskaya) (1654–1655)