December 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 23
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 9.
Feasts
Saints
* her teacher Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them:
* the Martyrs Theodota, Evodos (Evodus, Evodias, Evodius), Eutychianus, Zoilos, and others, who suffered under Diocletian (304)
- Hieromartyr Zoilus, Priest, under Diocletian (304)
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyrs Demetrius, Honoratus and Florus, in Ostia in Italy <small>(see also: November 21)</small>
- Thirty Holy Martyrs of Rome (c. 303)
- Martyr Flavian, former Prefect of Rome (362)
- Saint Hunger (Hungerus Frisus), Bishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands from 856; during the Norman invasion he fled to Prüm in Germany where he died (866)
- Saint Amaswinthus of Málaga, Monk and Abbot for forty-two years at a monastery in Silva de Málaga in Spain (982)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Dimitry (Demetrius) Kiranov, Archpriest of Yaroslavl, and Theodore Poroikov, Archpriest of Yalta (1937âÂÂ1938)
Other commemorations
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Notes
References
Sources
- December 22/January 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- January 4 / December 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- December 22. 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. 1.
- December 22. 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