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December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 26.

Feasts

Saints

  • Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 BC)
  • Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (c. 284-305)
  • Saint Bassa (Vassa), and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of Saint Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos (5th century) <small>(see also December 7 - Slavonic)</small>
  • Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553)
  • Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th century) <small>(see also: December 8)</small>
  • Martyr Narses (Nerses) of Persia, by the sword
  • Martyr Isaac
  • Saint Stephen "the New Light" of Constantinople (912)

Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Saint Syrus, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy (c. 1st century)
  • Virgin Martyr Valeria (Valerie) of Limoges or Aquitaine, by tradition she was converted by Saint Martial of Limoges in France and beheaded (1st-3rd century)
  • Saint Nectarius of Auvergne (c. 300)
  • Virgin Martyr Leocadia (Locaie) of Toledo, Spain (c. 303)
  • Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (c. 320)
  • Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa
  • Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586)
  • Saint Augard, hermit at Saint-Augard-en-Paule in Brittany (6th century)
  • Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr
  • Saint Balda, third Abbess of in France (7th century)
  • Saint Budoc (Budeaux), born in Brittany, became Abbot of in Ireland, then in Brittany (7th century?) <small>(see also: December 8)</small>
  • Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury (896)
  • Saint Egbert, Bishop of Trier in Germany (993)
  • Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England (c. 1000)
  • Saint , monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France (1045)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vinogradov, Priest (1919)
  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Dzhurinsky, Priest, and Virgin Martyr Ephrosia Dzhurinsky (1920)
  • New Hieromartyrs Basil Yagodin, Protopresbyter, and Alexander Buravtsev, Priest (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Paul Levashov, Archpriest of Gomel (disappeared 1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Sergius Mechev, Priest of Moscow (1941)

Other commemorations

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

  • December 9/22. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • December 22 / December 9. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • December 9. 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. 92.
  • December 9. 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. 378–379.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources