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November 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
November 6 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 6 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
Saints
Virgin-martyr Manatho. (see also: October 20)
Virgin-martyrs Tecusa, Alexandra, Claudia, Matrona, Polactia, Euphrosyne, Julia, Euphrasia, Faina, and Athanasia, of Ancyra (303) (see also: May 18)
Martyr Nikander, by the sword.
Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (c. 350) (see also: June 7 - West)
Venerable Luke of Tauromenium, monk, of Sicily (820)
Saint Demetrianus, Bishop of Cytheria on Cyprus, Wonderworker (c. 915)
Blessed Paul of Corinth, Fool-for-Christ.
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Felix of Thynissa, a martyr who suffered in Thynissa near Hippo (Bone) in North Africa.
Saint Illtyd (Illtut), abbot, of Llanilltyd Fawr, Wales (505)
Saint Leonard of Noblac, Gaul (c. 559)
Saint Leonianus, a hermit near Autun (c. 570)
Saint Felix, a monk at a monastery in Fondi in the south of Italy (6th century)
Saint Severus, Bishop of Barcelona in Spain (633)
Saint Edwen, she is the patroness saint of Llanedwen in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)
Saint Efflamm, born in Britain, he went to Brittany where he became abbot of a monastery he had founded (c. 700)
Saint Winnoc, Abbot, of Flanders (716)
Saint Cowey of Portaferry, Abbot, of Moville Monastery (8th century)
Saint Erlafrid, founder of Hirsau Abbey in Germany, where he became a monk (c. 830)
Saint Stephen of Apt, Bishop of Apt in the south of France in 1010 (1046)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Barlaam of Khutyn, founder of Khutyn Monastery, Novgorod (1192) (see also: June 6)
Saint Luke, steward of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan (1567)
Saint Barlaam of Keret, Karelia (16th century) (see also: January 15)
Venerable Agapios the Presbyter (Asimakis Leonardos) (1812)
Saint Elias Fondaminsky of Paris (1942) (see also: July 20)
New martyrs and confessors
New-Martyr Gregory the Cross-bearer (1936)
New Hieromartyr Nicetas (Delektorsky), Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsk (1937)
New Hieromartyr Barlaam (Nikolsky), Abbot, of Andreyevskoe, Moscow (1937)
New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Vladimirov), Hieromonk of the St. Michael Skovorodsky Monastery, Novgorod (1937)
New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Gur), Hieromonk, of Lytkarino, Moscow (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Anatoly Berzhitsky, Arsenius Troitsky, Nicholas Dvoretsky, Nicholas Protasov, Constantine Lyubomydrov, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyrs of the Kamensk Diocese (1937):
Vasily Vakhnin, Joseph Chekhranov, and Theodore Romanovsky, priests.
Virgin-martyrs Nina (Shuvalova), and Seraphima (Gorshkova), nuns (1937)
New Hieromartyr Basil Krylov, Priest (1938)
Synaxis of the New Martyrs of Sarov:
Anatole, Basil, Hierotheus, Isaac, and Rufinus (1938)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the falling of ash from the sky in Constantinople, during the reign of the Emperor Leo the Great and Patriarch Gennadius (472)
Commemoration of the Sarov Elders:
Abbot Pachomius (1794); Hieroschemamonk Joseph (1785); Hieromonks Pitirim (1789) and Matthew (1795); and Monk Joachim (1802).