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November 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
November 9 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 9 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.
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, Mount 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, Mount Athos (10th century)
Repose of Righteous Eldress Matrona of Penza (1937)