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November 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
November 4 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 4 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Saint Abimelech of Gerar the Righteous, who hosted Abraham, who had presented his wife Sarah as his sister (Genesis 20).
Apostles Hermas, Patrobas, Linus, Gaius and Philologus, of the Seventy (1st century) (see also: January 4, November 5)
Hierymartyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter, both disciples of Titus (1st century)
Martyr Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea (361) (see also: September 15)
Saint Sylvia, mother of St. Gregory the Dialogist (6th century) (see also: November 3)
Venerable Joannicius the Great of Bithynia (834)
Venerable Gabriel of Atonelni
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saints Vitalis and Agricola, martyrs in Bologna in Italy, under Diocletian (c. 304)
Saint Modesta, niece of Saint Modoald in France and first Abbess of Oehren in Trier in Germany (680)
Saint Proculus, Bishop of Autun in France martyred by invading Huns (c. 717)
Saint Clarus, a hermit near Rouen, murdered in the village of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (c. 875)
Saint Birnstan of Winchester (Beornstan), Bishop of Winchester in England, who loved to pray for the departed (c. 934)
Saint Gregory of Burtscheid, a Greek monk from Cerchiara in Calabria in Italy, founder of Burtscheid Abbey (999) (see also: November 5)
Saint Emeric of Hungary, son of Saint Stephen, the first Christian King of Hungary, he was a disciple of Saint Gerard Sagredo of Czanad, Confessor (1031)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Saint Luke, Bishop of Novgorod (1059)
Holy and Righteous Ioane, Stepane, and Isaiah the Georgians.
Saint John III Doukas Vatatzes the Merciful, Emperor of Nicaea (1254)
Venerable Mercurius the Faster of the Far Caves in Kiev (14th century) (see also: November 24)
Blessed Simon of Yurievets and Zharki, Fool-for-Christ (1584)
Saint Nicander, founder of Gorodnoezersk Monastery, Novgorod (1603)
Saint Paul (Konyuskevych), Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Siberia (1768)
Venerable George (Karslidis) of Drama the Confessor (1959) (see also: October 24 / November 6 - Russian)
New martyrs and confessors
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Vinogradov, Confessor and Priest (1931)
New Virgin Martyr Eugenia Lysova, Nun (1935)
New Hieromartyr Seraphim Samoilovich, Archbishop of Uglich (1937)
New Hieromartyr Alexander Petropavlovsky, Priest (1937)
New Hieromartyr Ismael Bazilevsky, Priest (1941)
Other commemorations
Narration of the destruction of Jerusalem (587 BC) in the Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, and on the ecstasy of Abimelech (≍ Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, of Jeremiah 38:7).
Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Sarov Monastery (1817)
Repose of Hieroschemamonk Daniel (Sandu Tudor), poet of Romania (1962) (see also: November 17 - N.S.)