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[[Image:Nativity.jpg|100px|The Nativity of Christ]]<br>[[File:SaintNaum.jpg|100px|Saint Nahum of Ohrid]]</div>[[Forefeast]] of the [[Nativity]] of [[Christ]]; holy ten [[martyr]]s Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete(250): Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus; [[Martyr Schinon (Skinus), by the sword;Saint]] Paul, [[Bishop]] of Neo-Caesarea, one a father of the [[Church Fathers|Fathers]] of [[First Council of Nicaea|NicaeaFirst Ecumenical Council]]; (4th c.)[Saint Niphon, Bishop of [[w:Salamis, Cyprus|Constantia on Cyprus]] (4th c.);Saint Chrysogonos (Chrysogonus);Venerable David of Echmiadzin in Armenia (693); Saint [[Naum of Preslav|Nahum of Ohrid]], [[Enlightener]] of the Bulgarians, [[disciple]] of Ss. [[Cyril and Methodius]] (see [[February 14]]), [[Equal-to-the-Apostles]] and [[Wonder-worker]](910) (see also [[May 11]] and [[July 27]]);Virgin-Martyrs Victoria and Anatolia, two sisters martyred in Rome for refusing to marry pagans (250);Martyrs Migdonius and Mardonius, high officials at the imperial court in Rome, under Diocletian (303);Saint Servulus, the righteous cripple (ca.590); Saint NiphonDagobert II, King of Austrasia, exiled to a monastery in 656, recalled in 675 and martyred by the tyrant Ebroin (679);Saint Egbert of [[w:Abbey of Rathmelsigi|Rathmelsigi Abbey]] (Ecgberht of Ripon), who organised the mission to Frisia (Neth.) (729) (see also [[monkApril 24]]); Saint TheoctistusFrithbert, Bishop of Hexham (766);Saint Mazota, leader of a group of nineteen holy virgins who went from Ireland to Scotland and founded a monastery at [[Archbishopw:Abernethy, Perth and Kinross|Abernethy on the Tay]] of Novgorod(8th c.?); Saint David of Echmiadzin Vintila, a monk who reposed as a hermit in Pugino in Galicia in ArmeniaSpain (890); Saint Theoctistus, [[New-MartyrArchbishop]]s of Novgorod (1310);Venerable Theophan (Rikhlovsky), of the Nizhyn Eparchy (1977) (see also [[PriestJanuary 5]]s );New Hieromartyrs John Piankov and NicholasYakhontov, Priests (1918);New Hieromartyr Basil Spassky, Priest, at Tver (1938);New Hieromartyr Macarius (Mironov), Hieromonk of Zavidovskaya Gorka (Tver) (1938); Martyr SchinonNew Hieromartyr John (Smirnov), Hieromonk of Bolshoye Mikhailovskoye (Tver) (1938); Saint FrithebertNew Hieromartyr Paul (Kratirov), Bishop of Hexham. Starobelsk;'''Other eventsCommemorations:''' remembrance Commemoration of the founding [[Consecration of a church|consecration]] and re-dedication of the Holy and Great Church of Christ, the [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]] in Constantinople, by Patriarch [[Eutychius of Constantinople|Eutychius]] (562);Repose of Eldress Eudocia Rodionova of Leushino Monastery, [[Fool-for-Christ]] (1886). <noinclude>[[Category:Calendar day templates|December 23]]</noinclude>
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