November 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 9

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 21 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 26.

Saints

 * Synaxis of the Holy Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Salaphiel, Jegudiel, Barachiel, Jeremiel and the Other Bodiless Powers.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * The Four Crowned Martyrs (c. 305):
 * Secundus, Severian, Carpophorus and Victorinus;
 * Claudius, Nicostratus, Symphorian, Castorius and Simplicius.


 * Saint Maurus, second Bishop of Verdun, Confessor (383)
 * Saint Clarus of Marmoutier, a monk at the monastery of Marmoutier with St Martin; he was ordained priest and then lived as a hermit near the monastery (389)
 * Saint Cybi (Cuby), Cornish bishop and, briefly king, who worked largely in North Wales (6th century)


 * Saint Deusdedit (Adeodatus I), Pope of Rome (618)
 * Saint Tysilio (Tyssel, Tyssilo, Suliau), Prince of Powys, Abbot of Meifod, Wales (7th century)
 * Saint Willehad, Bishop of Bremen, Confessor (789)
 * Saint Wiomad (Weomadus, Wermad), a monk at St Maximinus in Trier in Germany, he became Abbot of Mettlach and finally Bishop of Trier (790)
 * Saint Moroc, Abbot of Dunkeld and afterwards Bishop of Dunblane in Scotland (9th century)
 * Saint Gregory of Einsiedeln, Abbot of Einsiedeln Abbey (c. 945 or 996)


 * Saint Gervadius (Gernard, Garnet), born in Ireland, he went to Moray and became a hermit near Elgin in Scotland (10th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Righteous Maria (Martha in monasticism), Princess of Pskov (1300)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Martyr Michael the Blessed, of Chernigov (1922)
 * New Hieromartyr Paul Ansimov, Priest (1937)  (see also: November 9 )
 * New Hieromartyr Alexis (Zadvornov), Hieromonk of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937) (see also: November 9 )

Icons

 * * Synaxis of the Archangel Michael "Mantamados" ("Taxiarches Michael"), on Lesbos.
 * * Synaxis of the Archangel Michael "Panormitis", on Symi.

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Nun Barbara of Birsk (1903)
 * Repose of Elder Photius of Valaam Monastery (1942)
 * Repose of Blessed Olga Micahel of Alaska, Matushka (1979)
 * Repose of Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) of New York (1985)
 * Repose of Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis), of the Holy Monastery of Venerable David, in Euboea (1991).
 * Repose of Priest George Calciu of Romania and Alexandria, Virginia (2006).