The 10th of the month, Memory of our Holy Father GREGORY, Bishop of NYSSA; our Venerable Father DOMITIAN, Bishop of MELITENE; our Holy Father MARCIAN the STEWARD of the Great Church; our Venerable Father PAUL, founder of the Monastery of OBNORA; our Holy Father THEOPHAN the RECLUSE, Bishop of TAMBOV and VLADIMIR; the Venerable ANTIPAS, the HESYCHAST; our Venerable Fathers MAXIMUS and DOMETIUS of SCETIS; the Holy Hieromartyr ANATOLIUS, Metropolitan of ODESSA
St. Gregory of Nysa
On the 9th of the month, we keep the Memory of the Holy Martyr POLYEUCTUS; Venerable EUSTRATIUS the Wonderworker, Abbot of the Monastery of AGAURES in BITHYNIA; Saint PHILIP, Metropolitan of MOSCOW
St. Polyeuctus
On the 8th of the month, we keep the Memory of our Venerable Mother DOMNICA (Domnina); our Venerable Father GEORGE the CHOZEBITE; the Holy Hieromartyr Caterterius of CAESAREA; our Venerable Father AGATHON, who died in peace; Saint ATTICUS, Patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE; the Venerable MACARIUS MAKRES, Abbot of the Monastery of CHRIST PANTOKRATOR; the Holy Martyr ABO of TIFLIS, in Georgia; Saint SEVERINUS, Apostle of NORICUM
St. Domnica
On the 7th of the month, we observe the SYNAXIS of the Venerable and Illustrious PROPHET, FORERUNNER and BAPTIST of the Lord, JOHN; translation of the precious relic of the right hand of the Forerunner from Antioch to Constantinople, in the reign of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus and Romanus II Lecapenus (956-7); Memory of the Holy New Martyr ATHANASIUS of ATTALIA, who suffered at Smyrna in 1700; our Venerable Father CEDD, Abbot LASTINGHAM
On the 6th of the month, we keep the feast of the Holy THEOPHANY of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; the Holy Martyr ASSAD AL-HAYEK
On the 5th of the month, we keep the VIGIL (Paramone) of the THEOPHANY and the Memory of the Holy Martyrs THEOPEMPTUS and THEONAS; the Venerable SYNCLETICA; our Venerable Father GREGORY of AKRITAS; our Venerable Father PHOSTERIUS; the Holy Monk and New Martyr ROMANUS of CARPENNISION, who was slain by the sword at Constantinople in 1694
The 4th of the month, we celebrate the SYNAXIS of the SEVENTY holy and glorious APOSTLES; Memory of the Holy Martyrs, the monk ZOSIMUS and ATHANASIUS the NOTARY; the Venerable APOLLINARIA, a Virgin of senatorial rank, who lived in ascesis in Egypt under the name of Dorotheus; the Holy Monk and New Martyr ONUPHRIUS, who suffered on CHIOS in 1818; our Venerable Father TIMOTHY of KAKHOUCHTA
On the 3rd of the month, we keep the Memory of the Holy Prophet MALACHI; the Holy Martyr GORDIUS of CAESAREA; our Venerable Father PETER of ATROA, the Mirache-bearer (Semiophoros); the Venerable THOMAÏS of LESBOS; our Holy Mother GENEVIEVE of PARIS
On the 2nd of the month, we keep the Memory of our holy Father SYLVESTER, Pope of ROME; our Venerable and Godbearing Father SERAPHIM of SAROV; the Venerable JULIANA of LAZAREVSKOYE
The 1st day of the month, we keep the feast of the CIRCUMCISION according to the flesh of our Lord, God and Savior JESUS CHRIST; Memory of our Holy Father BASIL the GREAT, Archbishop of CAESAREA in Cappadocia; Saint Gregory, Bishop of NAZIANZUS and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian; our Holy Father FULGENTIUS, Bishop of RUSPE
The 31st of the month, Leavetaking of the NATIVITY, and Memory of our Venerable Mother MELANIA the ROMAN; Saint ZOTICUS, Cherisher of the poor and Servant of lepers; our Venerable Father GELASIUS, monk in Palestine, who died in peace
St. Melania the Roman
The 30th of the month, Memory of the Holy Virgin and Martyr ANYSIA of THESSALONICA; the Venerable THEODORA; the Holy Martyr PHILETAIRUS; the Holy New Martyr GIDEON, monk of KARAKALLOU; our Holy Father MACARIUS, Metropolitan of MOSCOW and of all Russia
St. Macarius of Moscow
The 29th of the month, Memory of the FOURTEEN THOUSAND HOLY CHILDREN slaughtered by Herod; our Venerable Father MARCELLUS, Abbot of the Monastery of the UNSLEEPING ONES (Akoimetoi), who died in peace; our Venerable Father THADDEUS the CONFESSOR, monk of the Stoudion; our Venerable Fathers MARK the GRAVEDIGGER, JOHN and THEOPHILUS of the KIEV CAVES; our Venerable Father LAURENCE of CHERNIGOV
On the 28th of the month, we keep the Memory of the TWENTY THOUSAND MARTYRS, who were burned to death in their church at NICOMEDIA; the Holy Martyrs of Nicomedia who escaped the fire but received the palm of martyrdom through other torments: DOMNA and THEOPHILA; INDES the eunuch; PETER And GORGONIUS; ZENO; DOROTHEUS, MARDONIUS and MIGDONIUS, courtiers; GLYCERIUS the priest; THEOPHILUS, the deacon; our Venerable Father SIMON the OUTPOURER of MYRRH (Myroblytis), founder of the Monastery of Simonos Petra (New Bethlehem) on the Holy Mountain of Athos
On the 28th of the month we keep the Memory of our Venerable Godbearing Father EPHRAIM the SYRIAN; our Holy Father PALLADIUS the ANCHORITE; our Holy Father JAMES the ASCETIC; our Venerable Father ISAAC the SYRIAN; our Venerable Father EPHRAIM the EUNUCH, monk of the Lavra of the KIEV CAVES and Bishop of PEREYASLAVL; the Venerable THEODOSIUS of TOTMA; our Venerable Father JOHN of RÉOMÉ; our Venerable Father XENOPHON, founder of the Monastery of ROBEIKA
On the SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS DAY, we keep the Memory of the holy Prophet and King DAVID, of Saint JOSEPH the BETROTHED and of Saint JAMES the BROTHER of the LORD
The 27th of the month, Memory of the Holy PROTOMARTYR and Archdeacon STEPHEN; the Holy Martyr MAURICE, and of his SEVENTY COMPANIONS
On the 26th of the month, we observe the SYNAXIS of our Sovereign Lady the ALL HOLY MOTHER OF GOD; the flight into Egypt of the Mother of God; our Holy Father EUTHYMIUS of SARDES, the Confessor; our Holy Father CONSTANTINE, the covert from JUDAISM; our Venerable Father EVARISTUS, monk of Constantinople, who died in peace; our Venerable Father NICODEMUS of TISMANA
On the 25th of the month, we keep the Feast of the NATIVITY according to the flesh of Our LORD GOD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST; Memory of the SHEPHERDS, who saw the Lord; the Veneration of the MAGI
The 24th of the month, Eve (Paramoni) of the NATIVITY of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Memory of the Holy Virgin and Martyr EUGENIA and of her Companions: PHILIP, her father; PROTAS and HYACINTH, her servants and companions in ascesis; and BASILLA; our Venerable Father NICOLAS the SOLDIER
