December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Dec. 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 10
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Dec. 22 by Old Calendarists
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Dec. 22 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
- Conception of the Virgin MaryConception of the Virgin MaryThe Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary is a liturgical holiday celebrated by the Orthodox Church on December 9, marking the conception of the Virgin Mary by her mother Saint Anne....
- Prophetess AnnaHannah (Bible)Hannah is the wife of Elkanah mentioned in the Books of Samuel. According to the Hebrew Bible she was the mother of Samuel...
(Hannah), mother of the ProphetProphetIn religion, a prophet, from the Greek word προφήτης profitis meaning "foreteller", is an individual who is claimed to have been contacted by the supernatural or the divine, and serves as an intermediary with humanity, delivering this newfound knowledge from the supernatural entity to other people...
Samuel (1100 BC) - St. Valeria of Aquitaine (2nd century)
- Martyr Sositheus of Persia (553553Year 553 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 553 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.- Europe :* The Ostrogoth Kingdom is conquered by the...
) - St. Stephen the "New Light" of ConstantinopleConstantinopleConstantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
(912912Year 912 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.-Africa:* Second rebellion of the Kutama tribesmen against the Fatimid Caliphate in two years.- Europe :...
) - New MartyrNew MartyrThe title of New Martyr or Neomartyr of the Eastern Orthodox Church was originally given to martyrs who died under heretical rulers . Later the Church added to the list those martyred under Islam and various modern regimes, especially Communist ones, which espoused state atheism...
Priest Sergius Mechev of MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
(1941) - Martyr Nerses of Persia
Other Commemorations
- Repose of ArchimandriteArchimandriteThe title Archimandrite , primarily used in the Eastern Orthodox and the Eastern Catholic churches, originally referred to a superior abbot whom a bishop appointed to supervise...
Theodosius of Tismana and Sophronieve Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius VelichkovskyPaisius VelichkovskySaint Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski is the person who transmitted Eastern Orthodox staretsdom or the concept of spiritual guidance to the Slavic world.A Ukrainian by birth, Pyotr Velichkovsky was born in Poltava, where his father, Ivan, was a priest...
(1802) - Repose of Elder Anthimus the BulgariaBulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
n on Mt. Athos (1867)