December 2022 SunMonTueWedThuFriSat 1 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Prophet Nahum Saint Philaret the Merciful of Constantinople (762) Our Venerable Father Eligius (Eloi), Bishop of Noyon (660) 2 Nativity Fast Prophet Habbakuk Holy Martyr Myrope (Myropea) of Chios (251) Our Holy Father Athanasius "the Resurrected," Recluse of the Kiev Caves (1176) Saint (Stephen) Uroš, King of Serbia (1367) Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia (1991) (Nov. 19 OC) 3 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Prophet Zephaniah; Ven. Savva of Zvenigorod Our Venerable Father John the Silent, Bishop of Colonia (558) 4 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 25th Sunday after Pentecost Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290) Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760) Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505) 5 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Sabbas the Sanctified St Cosmas the Protos of Mount Athos and his companions (~1274) 6 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia New Martyr Nicolas Karamos of Smyrna (1657) 7 Nativity Fast St Ambrose, Bishop of Milan; Ven. Nilus of Stolobensk Our Father among the Saints Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (397) The Martyrs of Africa, who suffered during the Vandal persecution (429 and following) Our Venerable Father Antony of Siya (1556) 8 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Ven. Patapius of Thebes Holy Apostles Sosthenes, Apollos, Tychicus and Epaphroditus, Cephas and Caesar 9 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos St Hannah (Anna), the Prophetess, the mother of the Prophet Samuel (12th c. BC) St Stephen the New Light (Neolampes) of Constantinople (912) 10 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, Eugraphus 11 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 26th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday of the Forefathers Ven. Daniel the Stylite Our Venerable Father Luke the New Stylite (979) 12 Nativity Fast St Spyridon the Wonderworker St Finian of Clonard (549) 13 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Repose Ven. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes at Sebaste Holy Virgin Maryr Lucy of Syracuse (304) 14 Nativity Fast Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucis, Callinicus Holy Martyrs Philemon, Apollonius, Arian and those with them (3rd c.) 15 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Hieromartyr Eleutherius of Illyria; St Stephen of Surozh Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, and those with him (126) Holy Martyr Eleutherius the Cubicularius (4th c.) Holy Martyr Bacchus the New (787) Our Venerable Father Tryphon of Kola, apostle of Laponia (1583), and his disciple the Holy Martyr Jonah (1590) 16 Nativity Fast Prophet Haggai Holy Empress and Wonderworker Theophano (893) 17 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed Holy Prophet Daniel and Three Holy Youths 18 Nativity Fast—Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed 27th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday before Nativity Martyr Sebastian and Companions at Rome Holy Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (634) 19 Nativity Fast Martyr Boniface and Righteous Aglaida 20 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Forefeast of Nativity; Hieromartyr Ignatius the Godbearer Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908) 21 Nativity Fast Virgin Martyr Juliana and Companions Holy Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia and those with her (304) Our Holy Father Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow (1326) 22 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Greatmartyr Anastasia and Companions 23 Nativity Fast Royal Hours of Nativity Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete Our Venerable Father Paul, Archbishop of Neocaesarea (4th c.) 24 Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed Saturday before Nativity – Eve of Nativity Holy Virgin and Martyr Eugenia and her companions (~190) 25 28th Sunday after Pentecost Nativity of Christ The Shepherds who saw the Lord The Veneration of the Magi 26 Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Sunday after Nativity is read on this day Hieromartyr Euthymius of Sardis The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family Our Holy Father Euthymius the Confessor, Bishop of Sardis (840) Our Holy Father Constantine of Synnada (7th c.) 27 Protomartyr Stephen Our Righteous Father Theodore the Branded, brother of St Theophanes the Hymnographer 28 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia Our Holy Father Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh, Founder of Simonopetra Monastery, Mt Athos (1287) 29 Holy Innocents Slain by Herod 30 Virgin Martyr Anysia at Thessalonica Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563) 31 Saturday after Nativity – Saturday before Theophany Ven. Melania the Younger of Rome St Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid (~1126)