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December 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 30

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 16.

Feasts

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France (c. 280)
  • Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in Rome
  • Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus and Honoratus, martyrs in North Africa
  • Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France (7th century)
  • Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), Abbot, born in Bayeux, became a monk at the monastery of Deux-Jumeaux, later founding a monastery at Pays d'Ouche in Normany, and other smaller monasteries (596)
  • Saint Girald (Girard, Giraud), a monk at Lagny in France, later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul; he became Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey, where he was murdered (1031)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Venerable Mark the Grave-Digger of the Kiev Near Caves (11th century)
  • Venerable Theophilus the Weeper and John (Ivan) of the Kiev Near Caves (11th–12th century)
  • Venerable Theophilus (1412) and Jacob (James), Wonderworkers and Abbots of Luga and Omuch (Omutch), Pskov, disciples of Saint Arsenius of Konevets
  • Saint Job Knyaginitsky, founder of Manyava Skete, Ukraine (1621)
  • Venerable (Basiliscus) the Hesychast of Turinsk, Siberia (1824)
  • Venerable Lawrence (Laurence) of Chernigov (1950)
  • Venerable Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, a pioneering missionary of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Africa — in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo (1972) <small>(see also: March 22 - Uncovering of Relics)</small>

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Arcadius, Bishop of Tver (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Theodosius Belenky, Priest, at Chimkent (1938)
  • New Virgin Martyrs Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia, Ephrosia, Agrippina, and Natalia (1942)

Other commemorations

  • Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who have died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing
  • Commemoration of the Consecration of the Church of the Holy Forty Martyrs near the Bronze Tetrapylon (four-way arch)

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Notes

References

Sources

  • December 29/January 11. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • January 11 / December 29. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • December 29. 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 29. 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. 400–401.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources