November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Forefeast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos.

  Saints

• Martyr Dasius of Dorostolum, Romania
• Martyrs Eustathios the Deacon, Thespesios, and Anatolios, of Nicaea
• Martyrs of Persia, under Shapur II :
• Martyrs Bassus and 42 companions in Heraclea in Thrace.
• Saint Isaac, Bishop of Armenia
• Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople
• Venerable Gregory Decapolites
• Venerable Theoctistus the Confessor, Patrician

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Octavius, Solutor and Adventor, patron-saints of Turin in Italy where they were martyred
• Martyrs Ampelus and Gaius, in Messina in Sicily under Diocletian
• Saint Maxentia, born in Ireland, she settled as an anchoress near Senlis in France, where she was put to death at the place now called Pont-Sainte-Maxence
• Saint Benignus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan
• Saint Silvester, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône in France
• Saint Simplicius of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy
• Saint Eval, a Bishop in Cornwall
• Saint Autbodus, born in Ireland, he preached in Artois, Hainault and Picardy in the north of France and Belgium
• Saint Eudo, a monk at Lérins Abbey in France, he founded the monastery of Corméry-en-Velay, later called Saint-Chaffre
• Saint Hippolyte of Belley, Bishop of Belley, then hermit in Saint-Claude in Franche-Comté
• Saint Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia
• Saint Leo of Nonantula, monk and abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy
• Saint Bernward of Hildesheim, Bishop of Hildesheim in Germany

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Sozomenos, Bishop of Karpaseia in Cyprus, and Wonderworker
• Venerable Diodorus of George Hill, Solovki, Abbot of Yuregorsk
• Saint Parasceva, Abbess of Toplovsky Convent, Simferopol

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Macarius, Bishop of Dnepropetrovsk
• New Hieromartyrs Alexis Amanov, Alexander Sakharov, and Vladimir Medvediuk, John Zabolotny, Alexis Nikatov, Basil Kandelabrov, Nicholas Zelenov, John Sarva, Emilian Panasevich, Nicholas Pokrovsky, Priests
• New Hieromartyr Arsenius, abbot, of the Tikhvin Monastery
• New Hieromartyr Eutychius, abbot, of the St. Marcian Skete, Ukraine
• New Hieromartyr Hilarion, hieromonk of Glinsk Hermitage
• New Nun-martyr Ioannikia, Abbess of the Convent of the Entry of the Theotokos
• New Woman Hieromartyr Tatiana Fomicheva

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