December 7 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 9
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 21 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 8th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 25.
Saints
- Holy Apostles of the Seventy (1st century):
- Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and Onesiphorus.
- Holy Apostle Epaphras of the Seventy Disciples (1st century)
- Venerable Patapios (Patapius) of Thebes (4th or 7th century)
- Holy 362 Martyrs of Africa, martyred by the Arians (477): <small>(see also December 7)</small>
- 62 priests and 300 laymen martyred by the Arians.
- Saint Victoria of Culusi (c. 484)
- Venerable Sophronius I, Bishop of Cyprus (8th century)
- Saint Damian, Bishop of Cyprus (6th-8th century)
- Venerable Aeros, Archbishop of the Church of Jerusalem.
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Eucharius, first Bishop of Trier in Germany (1st century or c. 250)
- Saint Valerius of Trèves, second Bishop of Trier in Germany (c. 250)
- Saint Eutychian, Pope of Rome, venerated as a martyr (283)
- Saint Valerian of Abbenza, Bishop, martyred by Vandals (457)
- Martyr Anthusa (Anthysa) at Rome (5th century)
- Saint Budoc (Budock), Bishop of Dol and Plourin (6th century)
- Saint Romaricus, monk at Luxeuil Abbey, later founded the monastery of Habendum (Remiremont Abbey, Romarici Mons), and became the second abbot (653)
- Saint Gunthild, a nun from Wimborne in England, went to Germany and became Abbess of a convent in Thuringia (748)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Martirius
- Saint Moskhian (10th-11th century)
- Saint Cyril, Founder and Abbot of Chelmogorsk (Chelma Hill) Monastery, Karelia, Enlightener of the Chudian People (1367)
- Saint Parthenios of Chios (1883)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Michael Kiselev, Protopresbyter, of Perm (1918)
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Fedoseyev, Priest, of Perm (1918)
- New Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Priest (1918)
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Orlov (1937)
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Notes
References
Sources
- December 8/21. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- December 21 / December 8. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- December 8. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
- December 8. 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. 377âÂÂ378.
Greek Sources
Russian Sources