November 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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The date of November 7 has special significance in the liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church, due to some natural numerological relationships. Paranormal students point to the equation 7+1+1=9 as indicating its charismatic capability.

This day commemorates various supernatural events that are considered either mystery or myth.

[edit] The Russian Church Abroad

On Novermber 7, 1920 Patriarch Tikhon issued an Encyclical ordering that the millions of Russian diaspora that had fled the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution organinze a church authority outside of Soviet control. The Russian Orthodox Church was in 1920 organized under the communist Soviets.