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The '''Sunday of the Holy Forefathers''' is the Sunday that falls between December 11-17, the second Sunday before the [[Nativity]]. The ancestors of [[Christ]] according to the flesh are remembered on this Sunday of the Nativity [[Fast]].
All the great Fathers and Mothers and [[Prophet]]s of the [[Old Testament]], starting with [[Adam]], [[Abraham]], the Righteous [[Sarah]], [[Isaac]] and [[Jacob]], including Holy Prophet [[Elias]] and [[Prophet Daniel|Daniel]], and concluding with Holy Prophet [[Zechariah]] (Zachary), [[Joachim and Anna]], Holy Prophet and Forerunner [[John the Baptist]] and The [[Theotokos]]. They lived before the Law and under the Law, especially the Patriarch Abraham, to whom God said, "In thy seed shall all of the nations of the earth be blessed" ([[Genesis]] 12:3, 22:18).
==Hymns==
