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December 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Dec. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 23

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 4 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 9.

Feasts

  • Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

    • Saints

  • Great Martyr Anastasia the Roman (Anastasia of Sirmium), Deliverer from Bonds, and:
  • her teacher Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them:
  • the Martyrs Theodota, Evodius, Eutychianus, and others, who suffered under Diocletian (304)
  • Hieromartyr Zoilus, Priest, under Diocletian (304)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Martyrs Demetrius, Honoratus and Florus, in Ostia in Italy.
  • Thirty Holy Martyrs of Rome (ca.303)
  • Saint Flavian, an ex-prefect of Rome (362)
  • Saint Hunger of Utrecht (Hungerus Frisus), Bishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands from 856; during the Norman invasion he fled to Prüm in Germany where he died (866)
  • Saint Amaswinthus of Málaga, monk and Abbot for forty-two years at a monastery in Silva de Málaga in Spain (982)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyrs Demetrius and Theodore, Priests (1938)
  • New Martyr Vorisa Talantova (1970)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Commemoration of the Thyranoixia (consecration) of the "Great Church of Christ", the Hagia Sophia.
  • Repose of Monk Dositheus, hermit of the Roslavl Forests and Optina Monastery (1828)
  • Icon of the Mother of God, Igumenia of Manjava Skete.

    • References

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