The 20th of the month, beginning of the Forefeast of the Nativity according to the flesh of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, and Memory of the Holy Hieromartyr IGNATIUS the GODBEARER; our Holy Father PHILOGONIUS, Archbishop of ANTIOCH; the Holy New Martyr JOHN the TAILOR, slain by the sword at Constantinople in 1650; our Holy Father JOHN of KRONSTADT; our Holy Father DANIEL II, Archbishop of SERBIA
