December 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 23.

Saints

• Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch (181)
• Martyr Niser, under Maximian, by fire (c. 286-305)
• Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (c. 345)
• Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Patara, uncle of Saint Nicholas of Myra (4th century)
• Saint Abramius, Bishop of Cratea (Cratia, Kratia) in Bithynia (6th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Asella (406)
• Saints Auxilius, Isserninus and Secundinus, missionaries with Saint Patrick in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th century)
• Martyrs Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus, in North Africa under the Arian Vandal Hunneric (c. 484)
• Saint Gertrude the Elder, founder and first Abbess of Hamaye (Hamay, Hamage) near Douai, in north France (649)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus (1305)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657) <small>(see also March 19)</small>
• New Hieromartyr Michael Uspensky, Priest of Moscow (1937)
• New Hieromartyrs/Hieroconfessors Nicholas, Priest of Tobolsk, Nicholas, Missionary of Moscow, and Nicholas, Priest of Novo-Nikolskaya (1942)
• New Hieromartyr Grigol Peradze of Georgia, Archimandrite (1942)

Other commemorations

• The miraculous apparition of Saint Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Council (325)
• Divine warning of an impending earthquake in Constantinople (1090)
• Icon of Our Lady of Tambov (1695)
• Seafaring Icon of the Mother of God
• The Wonderworking icon of Saint Nicholas the Drenched of St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev
• Name Day of Royal Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II (1918)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• December 6/19. Orthodox Calendar (orthochristian.com).
• December 19 / December 6. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (a parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• December 6. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• December 6. 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. 375–376.
• 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. p. 587.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 6 ΔεκεμβριοÏÂ. Μεγασ Συναξαριστησ.
• Συναξαριστής. 6 ΔεκεμβρίοÏÂ. Ecclesia.gr. (H Εκκλησια Τησ ΕλλαδοΣσ.

Russian Sources

• 19 декабря (6 декабря). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 6 декабря (ст.ст.) 19 декабря 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).