November 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
November 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 5
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 17 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For November 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 22.
Saints
- Saint Abimelech of Gerar the Righteous, who hosted Abraham, who had presented his wife Sarah as his sister.
- Apostles Hermas, Patrobas, Linus, Gaius and Philologus, of the Seventy Hierymartyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra, and Hermas, presbyter, both disciples of Titus
- Martyr Porphyrius the Mime, of Caesarea
- Saint Sylvia, mother of St. Gregory the Dialogist Venerable Joannicius the Great of Bithynia
- Venerable Gabriel of Atonelni
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saints Vitalis and Agricola, martyrs in Bologna in Italy, under Diocletian- Saint Modesta, niece of Saint Modoald in France and first Abbess of Oehren in Trier in Germany
- Saint Proculus, Bishop of Autun in France martyred by invading Huns
- Saint Clarus, a hermit near Rouen, murdered in the village of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte
- Saint Birnstan of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester in England, who loved to pray for the departed
- Saint Gregory of Burtscheid, a Greek monk from Cerchiara in Calabria in Italy, founder of Burtscheid Abbey
- 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
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Luke, Bishop of Novgorod
- Holy and Righteous Ioane, Stepane, and Isaiah the Georgians.
- Saint John III Doukas Vatatzes the Merciful, Emperor of Nicaea
- Venerable Mercurius the Faster of the Far Caves in Kiev
- Blessed Simon of Yurievets and Zharki, Fool-for-Christ
- Saint Nicander, founder of Gorodnoezersk Monastery, Novgorod
- Saint Paul, Metropolitan of Tobolsk and Siberia
- Venerable George (Karslidis) of Drama the Confessor ''''
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Vinogradov, Confessor and Priest
- New Virgin Martyr Eugenia Lysova, Nun
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim Samoilovich, Archbishop of Uglich
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Petropavlovsky, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Ismael Bazilevsky, Priest
Other commemorations
- Narration of the destruction of Jerusalem in the Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, and on the ecstasy of Abimelech.
- Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Sarov Monastery
- Repose of Hieroschemamonk Daniel, poet of Romania