December 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 5

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 17 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 21.

Saints

• Commemoration of the Twelve (Minor) Prophets
• Apostle Crispus of the Seventy Apostles, Bishop of Chalcedon (1st century)
• Greatmartyr Barbara and Martyr Juliana, at Heliopolis in Syria (306)
• Martyr Christodulus (Christodoulos) and Virgin Martyr Christodula (Christodoula, Christodouli), by the sword
• Saint John, Bishop and Wonderworker of Polybotum (Polybotus), Phrygia Salutaris (716)
• Venerable John of Damascus (John Damascene), Monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (749)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Felix, fifth Bishop of Bologna, previously a Deacon of the Church of Milan under Saint Ambrose of Milan (429)
• Saint Bertoara, Abbess of Notre-Dame-de-Sales in Bourges (614)
• Saint Ada, niece of Engebert, Bishop of Le Mans, she became a nun at Soissons, and Abbess in Le Mans (7th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Gennadius (Gennady), Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)

New martyrs and confessors

• Venerable Cassian the Martyr (Kassianos), one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (late 12th century) <small>(see also: October 6)</small>
• New Hieromartyr , Archbishop of Phanarion and Neochorion (1601)
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas Tsedrik, Priest (1917)
• New Martyrs of Perm (1918):
• Hieromartyrs Alexis Saburov, John Pyankov, Protopresbyters <small>(see also: December 23)</small>
• Alexander Posokhin and Nicholas Yakhontov, Priests
• Basil Kashin, Deacon, and with him 10 Martyrs
• New Hieromartyrs Damascene Tsedrik, Bishop of Glukhov, and his father, Nicholas Tsedrik, Priest (1935)
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius Nevedomsky, Priest (1937)
• New Virgin Martyrs Catherine Arskoy and Kyra Obolensky (1937)

Other commemorations

• Icon of the Mother of God of Damascus (Panayia Tricherousa, "Three-handed Theotokos") (c. 717)
• Glorification of the New Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky, Priest of New York and Protopresbyter of Moscow, Missionary of America, Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke (1937) <small>(see also: August 7, November 21)</small>

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• December 4/17. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• December 17 / December 4. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• December 4. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• December 4. 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. 373–374.
• 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. 583-585.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 4 ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 4 ΔεκεμβρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
• December 4. Ορθόδοξος Συναξαριστής.

Russian Sources

• 17 декабря (4 декабря). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 4 декабря (ст.ст.) 17 декабря 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).