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
19th of December
The 19th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyr BONIFACE and of Saint AGLAÏS the Roman; our Venerable Father GREGENTIUS, Bishop of SAFAR; Saint CYRIL III, Metropolitan of KIEV
St. Boniface
18th of December
The 18th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyr SEBASTIAN and his Companions; our Venerable Father MICHAEL the SYNCELLUS; the Holy Hieromartyr MODESTUS I, Archbishop of JERUSALEM; Saint GATIANUS, first Bishop of Tours; the Holy Hieromartyr THADDEUS, Archbishop of TVER
St. Thaddeus of Tver
17th of December
The 17th of the month, Memory of the Holy Prophet DANIEL and of the Three Holy Young Men: ANANIAS, AZARIAS and MISAEL; our Venerable Father STEPHEN the CONFESSOR, formerly named DUNALE; our Holy Father DIONYSIUS the NEW from ZAKINTHOS, who became Bishop of EGINA
16th of December
The 16th of the month, Memory of the Holy Prophet HAGGAI; our Venerable Father MODESTUS, Archbishop of JERUSALEM; the Most Pious Empress and Wonderworker THEOPHANO, wife of the Emperor LEO the Wise; our Holy Father MEMNON, Archbishop of EPHESUS
St. Haggai the Prophet
15th of December
The 15th of the month, Memory of the Holy Hieromartyr ELEUTHERIUS, Bishop of ILLYRIA and of his Companions: his mother ANTHIA, Saint FELIX, Saint COREMONUS the Prefect, and the TWO SOLDIERS, who died by the sword after being converted by the Saint; the Holy Martyr ELEUTHERIUS the CUBICULARIUS; the Holy Martyr BACCHUS the NEW, who was slain by the sword; our Venerable Father PAUL the NEW, who lived in ascesis on Mount LATROS; our Venerable Father TRYPHON of KOLA, apostle of Laponia, and of his disciple the Holy Martyr JONAH
St. Eleutherius and his mother St. Anthia
Sunday of the Holy Ancestors of Christ
The SECOND SUNDAY before the Feast of the Nativity of Christ, Commemoration of the ANCESTORS of the LORD
14th of December
The 14th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyrs THYRSUS, LEUCIUS and CALLINICUS; the Holy Martyrs PHILEMON, APOLLONIUS and of their Companions: the Governor ARIANUS and his four Bodyguards; our Venerable Father DANIEL of VORONETS; Saint HILARION, Metropolitan of SUZDAL
St. Daniel of Voronets
13th of December
The 13th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyrs EUSTRATIUS, AUXENTIUS, EUGENE, MARDARIUS and ORESTES; the Holy Virgin Martyr LUCY of SYRACUSE; our Venerable Father ARSENIUS of Mount LATROS; our Venerable Father HERMAN (Germanus) of ALASKA and of the first Martyrs of the Orthodox Church in America: Saint JUVENAL and Saint Peter the ALEUT
St. Lucia of Syracuse
12th of December
The 12th of the month, Memory of our holy Godbearing Father SPYRIDON the Wonderworker, Bishop of TREMITHUS; the Holy Martyr SYNESIUS (Synetos); the Holy Hieromartyr ALEXANDER, Bishop of JERUSALEM
St. Spyridon the Wonderworker
11th of December
The 11th of the month, Memory of our Venerable Father DANIEL the STYLITE; our Venerable Father LUKE the New STYLITE; the Holy Martyrs AETHALAS and APSEUS; our Venerable Father LEONTIUS of ACHAIA; Saint NIKON the DRY, of the KIEV CAVES
10th of December
The 10th of the month, Memory of the Holy Martyrs MENAS, HERMOGENES and EUGRAPHUS; the Holy Martyr GEMELLUS; our Venerable Father THOMAS DEFOURKINOS
Sts. Menas, Hermogenes, and Eupgraphus
9th of December
The 9th of the month, the CONCEPTION by Saint ANNA of the Most Holy Mother of God; Saint HANNAH (Anna) the Prophetess, the mother of the Prophet Samuel; our Venerable Father STEPHEN NEOLAMPES (the New Light) of Constantinople
Conception of the Theotokos
8th of December
The 8th of the month, Memory of our Venerable Father PATAPIUS; the Holy Apostles SOSTHENES, APOLLOS, TYCHICUS and EPAPHRODITUS, CEPHAS and CAESAR
St. Patapius
7th of December
The 7th of the month, Memory of our Father among the Saints, AMBROSE, Bishop of MILAN; the MARTYRS of AFRICA, who suffered during the Vandal persecution; our Venerable Father PAUL the OBEDIENT; our Venerable Father GREGORY the HESYCHAST, the founder of the Monastery of St. Nicholas (Gregoriou) on Mount Athos, who died in peace; our Venerable Father ANTONY of SIYA; Commemoration o the Translation of the relics of the Holy Martyr PHILOTHEA the NEW from Trnovo to CURTEA DE ARGES; our Venerable Father GERASIMUS of EUBOEA
St. Ambrose of Milan
6th of December
The 6th of the month, Memory of our Father among the Saints NICOLAS the Wonderworker, Archbishop of MYRA; Saint THEOPHILUS, Bishop of ANTIOCH; our Venerable Father ABRAAMIUS, Bishop of CRATEA; the Holy New Martyr NICOLAS KARAMOS, hanged at Smyrna; our Venerable Father MAXIMUS, Metropolitan of KIEV and of VLADIMIR
5th of December
The 5th of the month, Memory of our Venerable, Godbearing Father SABAS the SANCTIFIED; the Holy Monks and Confessors of Athos, COSMAS the PROTOS and his Companions, who were slain at the command of the Latinizers: the Emperor Michael VIII and the Patriarch John Bekkos; our Venerable Father NECTARIUS of KARYES, and of his spiritual Father PHILOTHEUS; Saint NICETIUS (Nizier), Bishop of TRIER
St. Sabas the Sanctified
4th of December
The 4th of the month, Memory of the Holy Great Martyr BARBARA, and of her companion JULIANA who was slain by the sword; our Venerable Godbearing Father JOHN of DAMASCUS; the Holy New Hieromartyr SERAPHIM, Bishop of PHANARION
St. Barbara the Great Martyr
3rd of December
The 3rd of the month, Memory of the Holy Prophet ZEPHANIAH (Sophonias); our Venerable Father JOHN the SILENT, Bishop of COLONIA; the Holy New Martyr ANGELIS of CHIOS; our Venerable Father SABAS of ZVENIGOROD; our Venerable Father GEORGE of CERNICA
St. Zephaniah the Prophet
2nd of December
The 2nd of the month, Memory of the Holy Prophet HABAKKUK (Abbacum); the Holy Martyr MYROPEA; our Venerable Father CYRIL of PHILEA
St. Habakkuk the Prophet