December 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 2 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – December 4

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 20.

Saints

• Prophet Zephaniah (Sophonias) (635–605 BC)
• Martyrs Agapius, Seleucus, and Mamas, Indus, Domna, Glycerius, and 40 Martyrs, in Sofianá <small>(see also: December 28)</small>
• Venerable Theodoulos (Theodoulus) the Stylite, Eparch of Constantinople (c. 440)
• Venerable Theodoulos of Cyprus, Monk
• Saint John the Silent (John Hesychastes), Bishop of Colonia (Taxara) in Armenia, and later a monk of Saint Sabbas (Sava's) Monastery (558) <small>(see also: March 30)</small>
• Hieromartyr Theodore I, Patriarch of Alexandria (609–610)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Lucius, King of Britain who requested missionaries for his people in 187, founding the dioceses of London and Llandaff (2nd century)
• Martyr Cassian of Tangier (298)
• Saint Mirocles, Archbishop of Milan and Confessor, helped develop the Ambrosian Liturgy and chanting (318)
• Martyr Agricola, in Pannonia
• Martyrs Claudius, Crispin, Magina, John, and Stephen, in Africa
• Saint Nicetius, Archbishop of Lugdunum (Lyon), Gaul (573)
• Saint Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester, "Apostle to the West Saxons" (649)
• Saint Eloquius (Eloque), disciple and successor of Saint Fursey as Abbot of Lagny (660)
• Saint Ethernan, born in Scotland, became a bishop in Ireland, returned to preach the Gospel in Scotland (7th century)
• Saint Attalia (Attala), a niece of Saint Ottilia, she became a nun and Abbess of St. Stephen's in Strasbourg (741)
• Saint Sola (Sol, Solus, Suolo), Anglo-Saxon missionary priest under Saint Boniface (Germany) (794)
• Saint Abbo, Bishop of Auxerre (860)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Sabbas of Storozhev, Abbot of Storozhev in Zvenigorod, Disciple of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (1406) <small>(see also: January 19)</small>
• Saint Hilarion Grigorovich, Bishop of Krutitsa (1759)
• Venerable George (Gregory) of Cernica and Caldarushani, Archimandrite, Romania (1806)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Gabriel II, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, previously Bishop of Ganos, at Prusa (1659)
• New Monk-Martyr Cosmas of Saint Anne's Skete, Mount Athos (1760)
• New Martyr Angelos (Angelus) of Chios, formerly a doctor of Argos (1813)
• New Hieromartyr Andrew Kosovky, Protopresbyter of (1920)
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Yershov, Priest of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1937)
• New Confessor George (Gregory) Sedov (1960)

Other commemorations

• Repose of King Magnus II (IV) Eriksson of Sweden and Valaam, Gregory in schema (1371)
• Repose of Archimandrite Theophanes of Novoezersk Monastery in Novgorod (1832)

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Notes

References

Sources

• December 3/16. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• December 16 / December 3. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• December 3. OCA – The Lives of the Saints.
• December 3. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• . 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. 372–373.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 579–583.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 3 ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 3 ΔεκεμβρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• December 3. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

• 16 декабря (3 декабря). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia – Pravenc.ru).
• 3 декабря (ст.ст.) 16 декабря 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).