November 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 4 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 6

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 18 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 23.

Saints

 * Apostles Patrobus, Hermas, Linus, Gaius, and Philologus, of the Seventy (1st century)  (see also: November 4)
 * Martyrs Galacteon and his wife Episteme at Emesa (253)
 * Martyrs Domninus, Timothy, Theophilus, Theotimus, Dorotheus, Eupsychius, Carterius, Silvanus, Pamphilius, Philotheos, Nearchos and other martyrs of Palestine (307)   (see also: November 15)
 * Martyr Castor the Bishop, by fire, and Martyr Agathangelus, by the sword.
 * Saint Domentius and Paul the Bishop.
 * Venerable Gregory, Patriarch of Alexandria, Confessor (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Felix and Eusebius, martyrs in Terracina, between Rome and Naples in Italy (1st century)
 * Saint Domninus, first Bishop of Grenoble in France (4th century)
 * Saint Dominator, fourteenth Bishop of Brescia in Lombardy in Italy (c. 495)
 * Saint Fibitius, Abbot of a monastery in Trier in Germany, and the twenty-first bishop of that city (c. 500)
 * Saint Magnus, Archbishop of Milan in Italy from 520 to 525, Confessor (525)
 * Saint Laetus, a monk at the age of twelve, he is honoured near Orleans in France, his relics enshrined in the village of Saint-Lyé-la-Forêt (533)
 * Saint Cybi (Kybi, Kebius, Cuby), Abbot, of Cornwall and Wales (550)  (see also: November 8)


 * Saint Hermenegild, a monk at Salcedo in Galicia in Spain (586)
 * Saint Augustine and Paulinus, monks sent by St Benedict to found the monastery of Terracina in Italy (6th century)
 * Saint Kea (Kay, Kenan), Bishop of Devon and Cornwall (6th century)
 * Saint Bertilla (Berthild of Chelles), a nun at Jouarre near Meaux in France, who became Abbess of Chelles Abbey (c. 705)
 * Saint Spinulus (Spinula, Spin), a monk at Moyenmoutier with St Hidulf, later founder of the monastery of Bégon-Celle (now Saint-Blasien) (707 or 720)
 * Saint Kanten (Cannen), founder of Lianganten in Powys in Wales (8th century)
 * Saint Odrada, Virgin, of Balen, Netherlands (8th century)
 * Saint Gregory, a monk at Cassano, Calabria (1002)  (see also: November 4)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod (1470)
 * Saint Hilarion, Recluse, of Troekurovo (1853)
 * Saint Dositheus, monk of Glinsk Hermitage (1874)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Gabriel Maslennikov, Priest of Ryazan (1937)

Other commemorations

 * Consecration of the Church of Theodore Tyron, in the "Sforakio" district of Constantinople.
 * Election to the patriarchal throne of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus (1917)
 * Repose of Abbess Anna of Vraćevšnica monastery, Serbia (1975)
 * Repose of Hieromonk Raphael (Ogorodnikov) of Porkhov, Pskov (1988)