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December 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 13

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 29.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyr Synesius (Synetus) of Rome, a Reader, tortured and beheaded for refusing to sacrifice to idols (270-275)
  • Martyrs Maxentius, Constantius, Crescentius, Justinus and their Companions, martyrs in Trier in Germany in the reign of Diocletian, under the governor Rictiovarus (c. 287)
  • Saint Abra of Poitiers, daughter of Saint Hilary of Poitiers in France (c. 360)
  • Saint Corentin (Corentinus), first Bishop of Quimper in Brittany, he had lived as a hermit at Plomodiern (490)
  • Saint Finian of Clonard and Skellig Michael, teacher of Ireland and one of the fathers of Irish monasticism (549)
  • Saint Columba of Terryglass (Columba of Tyrdaglas), born in Leinster in Ireland, he was a disciple of Saint Finian and Abbot of Tyrdaglas in Munster (552) <small>(see also: December 13)</small>
  • Saint Gregory of Terracina, a disciple of Saint Benedict, and with his brother Saint Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy (c. 570)
  • Saint Cormac (Cormac mac Eogain), an Abbot in Ireland and friend of Saint Columba (6th century)
  • Saint Colman of Glendalough in Ireland, Abbot (659)
  • Saint Agatha, nun at Wimborne in Dorset in England and a disciple of Saint Lioba, she went to Germany to help Saint Boniface in his missionary work (c. 790)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint John, Metropolitan of Zichnon (Zichne), founder of the Monastery of the Forerunner on Mt. Menikion (north-east of Serres) (1333)
  • Venerable Therapon (Therapontus), Abbot of Monza Monastery (1597)
  • Saint Mardarije Uskoković of Libertyville, Illinois, Enlightener and Apostle of the Church in America (1935) <small>(see also: November 29)</small>

Other commemorations

* Hieromartyr Juvenaly (Juvenal) of Alaska, Protomartyr of America (1796)
* Martyr Peter (Cungagnaq) the Aleut, tortured and slain by Franciscan friars at San Francisco, California (c. 1815)
* Hieromartyr Anatole Kamensky of Irkutsk (1925)
* Hieromartyr Seraphim Samoilovich of Uglich (1937)
* Hieromartyr John Kochurov of Chicago, Priest, slain in Russia (1917)
* Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky of New York, Priest, slain in Russia (1937)

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Notes

References

Sources

  • December 12/25. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • December 25 / December 12. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • December 12. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 93.
  • December 12. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources