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December 27:

Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity; Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (34); Saint Maximus, Pope of Alexandria (282); Martyrs Maurice, with his son Photinus, and 70 soldiers, at Apamea (286-305); Saint Theodore, Patriarch of Constantinople (686); Venerable Theodore the Branded (Theodore Graptus), of Palestine and Bithynia, Confessor, brother of St. Theophanes the Hymnographer (840); Venerable Luke, Abbot of the Monastery of the Deep Stream in Triglia, in Bithynia; Saint Fabiola, a patrician in Rome who gave up all earthly pleasures and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism and charitable work (399); Saint Svyatoslav II Yaroslavich, Prince of Chernihiv, son of St Yaroslav the Wise (1076); Venerable Abbot Boniface (Vinogradsky), founder of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Kiev (1871); New Hieromartyrs Tikhon (Nikanorov), Archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919); Virgin-Martyr Antonina (1937); Other Commemorations: Uncovering of Relics (1514) of Venerable Pherapont (Therapont) of Mozhaisk, Luzhetsk (feast day May 27); Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, Missionary to the Tatars (1891); Repose of Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam (1909); Repose of Helen Ivanovna Motovilova (1910); Repose of Abbot Athanasius of Grigoriou Monastery, Mount Athos (1953); Repose of Archimandrite Seraphim (Rozenberg) of the Pskov-Caves Monastery (1993); Icon of the Mother of God "the Merciful".

( December 14: Julian Calendar )

Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (Coronatus), with others, of Bithynia (ca. 250); Martyrs Apollonius, Philemon, Arianus, Theoctychus, and four guards converted by St. Arianus, at Alexandria (ca. 305); Martyr Hypatius, and 36 martyrs with him, from the Thebaid in Egypt; Martyrs Justus and Abundius (283); Saint Pompeius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy (ca.290); Saint Matronian, born in Milan, he became a hermit, and later his relics were enshrined by St. Ambrose; Saint Viator of Bergamo, an early Bishop of Bergamo in Italy from 344 to 378; Hieromartyr Nicasius of Rheims, Bishop of Rheims in France, with his sister Eutropia and Companions (407); Saints Fingar (Gwinnear) and Phiala, brother and sister, and Companions, martyrs in Cornwall (5th c.); Saint Agnellus, a hermit and then Abbot of San Gaudioso near Naples in Italy (ca.596); Saint Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers (ca.609); Saint Hibald (Hygbald), an Abbot in Lincolnshire in England to whom several churches are dedicated, notably at Hibaldstow (ca.690); Saint Folciunus, Bishop of Tervas (Netherlands) (855); Saint Hilarion, Metropolitan of Suzdal and Yuriev (1707); New Hieromartyr Nicholas Kovalev, Priest of Alma-Ata (1937); New Hiero-Confessor Bassian (Pyatnitsky), Archbishop of Tambov (1940); Other commemorations: Commemoration of the Constantinople earthquake of 557; Repose of Blessed Recluse John of Sezenovo Convent (1839).

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