December 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 30 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 1

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 13 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 31st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 18.

Feasts

• Apodosis of the Nativity of Christ

Saints

• Saint Abgar V, King of Osroene (c. 50)
• Holy Ten Virgin Martyrs of Nicomedia (c. 286 – 305)
• Martyr Olympiodora, by fire
• Martyr Busiris, martyred by women with knitting needles
• Martyr Nemi (Nemo), by the sword
• Saint Gaudentius
• Saint Salamin
• Saint Irenaeus
• Saint Martina
• Saint Hermes of Bononia (4th century)
• Hieromartyr Zoticus (Zotikos) the Priest of Constantinople, Feeder and Guardian of Orphans (c. 340) <small>(see also December 30)</small>
• Saint , Bishop of Thessaloniki (c. 407) <small>(see also December 30)</small>
• Venerable Melania the Younger, Nun of Rome (439)
• Venerable Gelasius, Monk (Abba) of Palestine
• Venerable Gaius, Monk
• Venerable Sabiana, Abbess of Samtskhe Convent (11th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Columba of Sens (273)
• Martyrs of Catania:
• Stephen, Pontian, Attalus, Fabian, Cornelius, Sextus, Flos, Quintian, Minervinus and Simplician, early martyrs in Catania in Sicily
• Martyrs Donata, Paulina, Rustica (Rogata), Nominanda (Dominanda), Serotina, Hilaria and Companions
• Hieromartyrs Sabinian and Potentian (c. 303)
• Saint Silvester I, Pope of Rome (335)
• Saint Valerius Pinianus (Apinianus), husband of Saint Melania the Younger (432)
• Saint Barbatianus (Barbatian), Priest and Confessor, at Ravenna (5th century)
• Saint Marius Aventicensis, Bishop of Aventicum (596)
• Saint Franquila Myrrh-streaming, first abbot of Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova (10th century)
• Saint Peter of Subiaco (1003)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Blessed Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid (c. 1126)
• Saint George Macheromenos the Wonderworker, "the stabbed" (14th century)
• Saint Petro Mohyla (Peter Mogila), Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (1646) <small>(see also: December 15 - Glorification)</small>
• Venerable Cyriacus of Bisericani Monastery, Romania (1660)
• Venerable Cyriacus of Tazlau Monastery, Romania (1660)
• Saint Paisios of Mount Athos (1994)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Michael Berezin, Priest (1937)
• New Martyr Peter Troitsky (1938)
• New Hieroconfessor , Metropolitan of Zagreb (1945)

Other commemorations

• Unfading Flower Icon of the Mother of God at Ardatov <small>(see also April 3)</small>

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• December 31/January 13. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• January 13 / December 31. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• December 31. 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. 4.
• December 31. 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. 402–403.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 31 ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 31 ΔεκεμβρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 13 января (31 декабря). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 31 декабря (ст.ст.) 13 января 2015 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).