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</div>The [[Forefeast|Eve]] of the [[Nativity]] of [[Christ]]; Venerable [[Nun]]-[[martyr]] Eugenia of Rome, and with her : Martyrs Philip (her father), Protus, and Hyacinth (Jacinth), Basilla, and Claudia(262);Martyrs Sossios and Theokleios (ca.286-305);Martyr Castulus (ca.307-323);Martyr Achaicus, by the sword; Saint Nicholas Venerable Vitimionus of Scetis (Bitimionus of Scete) (5th c.);Venerable Aphrodisius, monk of Palestine (6th c.);Venerable Antiochus of Palestine (''Antiochus Strategos, Antiochos Sabbaitis''), monk of the [[monkHoly Lavra of St. Savas (Jerusalem)|Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified]] in Jerusalem (635);Venerable Nicholas the Monk, of Bulgaria(Nicholas the former soldier) (ca.802-811);Martyrs Lucian, Metrobius, Paul, Zenobius, Theotimus and Drusus, in Tripoli in North Africa;Hieromartyr Gregory of Spoleto, a priest martyred in Spoleto in Italy under Maximinian Herculeus;Saint Delphinus, Bishop of Bordeaux in France; he helped convert St Paulinus of Nola and was an untiring opponent of Priscillianism (404); Saint Venerandus, of a senatorial family in Clermont in Auvergne in France, became bishop there from 385-423 (423);Saint Caranus, a saint of the east of Scotland;Saint Tarsila, an aunt of St Gregory the Great, sister of St Emiliana and niece of Pope Felix (581);Saint Mochua, [[SaintAbbot]] of [[w:Timahoe|Timahoe]] Antioch(637);Saint Irmina, monk sister of PalestineSt. Adela, and daughter of Dagobert II (King of the Franks) (708);Saint Bitimionus Adela, daughter of Dagobert II (King of the Franks), first Abbess of ScetePfalzel near Trier in Germany (ca.730); Saint AphrodisiusAlberic (Albert), a monk at Gladbach Abbey in Germany (10th c.);Saint Bruno, a holy man at the monastery of Palestine[[w:Ottobeuren Abbey|Ottobeuren Abbey]] in Bavaria in Germany (1050); [[New-Martyr]] Achmed (Ahmet) the Calligrapher , at Constantinople (or Architect1682) (see also [[May 3]]) of Constantinople; Martyr AchaicusVenerable Agapios the Younger (1812); Saint MochuaMartyrs Protopresbyter St. Michael Shafaniv, and Presbytera St. Sofia (1918) (see also [[AbbotSeptember 1]] );New Hieromartyr Innocent (Beda), Archimandrite, of TimahoeVoronezh (''Innokenty (Bida) of Poltava'') (1928);New Hieromartyr Sergius Mechev, Archpriest, of Moscow (1942). <noinclude>[[Category:Calendar day templates|December 24]]</noinclude>