December 12 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 14
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 26 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 13th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 30.
Saints
- Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes, at Sebaste, also known as the Holy Five Martyrs of Sebaste (284-305)
- Venerable Ares, Monk in the Egyptian desert
- Saint Auberius, Bishop
- Venerable Arsenius the Ascetic of Mt. Latros ()
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyr Antiochus of Sulcis, under the Emperor Hadrian (c. 110)
- Virgin Martyr Lucia (Lucy) of Syracuse (304)
- Saint Columba of Terryglass and Holy Island on Lough Derg, Ireland (549) <small>(see also: December 12)</small>
- Saint Judoc (Judocus, Judganoc, Josse) of Ponthieu, Priest, brother of King Judicäel of Brittany, became a hermit in Villiers-Saint-Josse (c. 668)
- Saint Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai-Arras in France, founded monasteries including Saint Vaast in Arras (669)
- Saint Odilia (Otilia, Othilia) of Alsace, Gaul (c. 720)
- Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet, a disciple of Saint Mildred, whom she probably succeeded as Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet in 716 (751)
- Saint Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria and a great monastic benefactor, became a monk at Jumièges Abbey, reposed at Lorsch Abbey (c. 794)
- Saints Einhildis and Roswinda, nuns at Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace in France with Saint Ottilia (8th century)
- Saint Wilfrid (Wiffred), a monk and Abbot of the Monastery of St Victor in Marseilles, France (1021)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Arcadius of Vyazma, Monk of Novotorsk (Novotorzhok), disciple of Saint Ephrem (1077)
- Saints Neophytos, Ignatios, Prokopios, and Neilos, founders of Machairas Monastery, Cyprus (1145, 1172)
- Saint Mardarius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th century)
- Saint Dositheus (Dosifey, Dosoftei), Metropolitan of Moldavia, Romania (1693)
- Venerable Nicodemus (Nikodemos) of Romania
- Venerable Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836). <small>(see also: August 9 - Glorification)</small>
- Saint Innocent of Kherson (1857)
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
- Sunday of the Holy Forefathers of Jesus Christ (December 11âÂÂ17)
- Commemoration of the miracle by the Holy Five Martyrs
- Repose of Schemamonk Panteleimon "the Resurrected" of Glinsk Hermitage (1895)
- Repose of Blessed Maximus of Ustiug (1906)
- Repose of Bishop Theodore, Wonderworker of Trolov Convent in Kiev (1924)
- Repose of Hieromonk Joel of Valaam (1937)
- Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim Iscu of Tismana Monastery, Romania (1951)
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Notes
References
Sources
- December 13/26. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- December 26 / December 13. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- December 13. 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 13. 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.
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Russian Sources