December 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Dec. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 23
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 4 by Old Calendarists
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 4 by Old Calendarists
Old calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...
Saints
- Great MartyrGreat martyrGreat Martyr or Great-Martyr is a classification of saints who are venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Rite of Constantinople....
Anastasia the Roman, Deliverer from Bonds, and her teacher MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
ChrysogonusSaint ChrysogonusSaint Chrysogonus is a saint and martyr of ancient Rome venerated by the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.-Life:Chrysogonus was martyred at Aquileia, probably during the Persecution of Diocletian, was buried there, and publicly venerated by the faithful of that region. He is the...
, and with them the Martyrs Theodota, Evodias, Eutychianus, and others, who suffered under DiocletianDiocletianDiocletian |latinized]] upon his accession to Diocletian . c. 22 December 244 – 3 December 311), was a Roman Emperor from 284 to 305....
(304 AD)
Other Commemorations
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ