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December 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 29

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 10 by Orthodox Churches on Old Calendar.

For December 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 15.

Feasts

Saints

  • Apostle Nicanor the Deacon, one of the Seven Deacons, and one of the Seventy (34)
  • Martyr Secundus, an Enlightener of Spain, sent by the Apostles to Spain to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1st century)
  • The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia (302), including:
  • Hieromartyr Glycerius, priest
  • Deacons Theophilus and Migdonius
  • Martyrs Zeno, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Indes, Gorgonius, Peter, and Euthymius
  • Virgin Martyrs Agape, Domna (the former pagan priestess), Theophila, and others
  • Martyr Ploutodoros
  • Venerable Babylas of Tarsus in Cilicia
  • Venerable Stephen the Wonderworker

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Castor, Victor and Rogatian, in North Africa
  • Saint Domnio (Domnion), a righteous priest in Rome
  • Saints Romulus and Conindrus, two of the first people to preach Orthodoxy on the Isle of Man, they were contemporaries of Saint Patrick (c. 450)
  • Saint Maughold (Maccaldus), a former brigand in Ireland, was converted by Saint Patrick and sent to the Isle of Man, where his episcopate was very fruitful (c. 488)
  • Saint Antony of Lérins (Anthony the Hermit), renowned for miracles (c. 520)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Saint Simon the Myrrhgusher, founder of Simonopetra, Mount Athos (1287)
  • Saint , Monk, of Loma (Vologda) (Ignatii of Lomsk and Yaroslavsk) (1591)
  • Saint Nephon the New Cenobiarch (1809)
  • Saint Cornelius, monk of Krypetsk Monastery (Pskov) (1903)
  • Saint Pakhomij, Hieromonk, (Petin - 1985)

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr , Bishop of Belgorod, at Solovki (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr Arcadius Reshetnikov, Deacon (1918)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1920)
  • New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus, Leonid, and Nicholas, Priests (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexander Tsitseronov, known as Cicero, Priest (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Arethus, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

  • Repose of Joseph the Hesychast, Romania (1828)

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Notes

References

Sources

  • December 28/January 10. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • January 10 / December 28. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • December 28. 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. 3.
  • December 28. 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. pp. 399–400.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources