December 12 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 14

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 26 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 13th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 30.

Saints Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes, at Sebaste, also known as the Holy Five Martyrs of Sebaste (284-305)Great Synaxaristes: : Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐστράτιος, Αὐξέντιος, Εὐγένιος, Μαρδάριος καὶ Ὀρέστης. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes, at Sebaste. OCA - Feasts and Saints.December 13/26. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Venerable Ares, Monk in the Egyptian desertGreat Synaxaristes: : Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἄρης. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Auberius, Bishop Venerable Arsenius the Ascetic of Mt. Latros ()Great Synaxaristes: : Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Ἀσκητὴς ποὺ ἀσκήτευσε στὸ Λάτριο ὄρος. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Venerable Arsenius of Latros. OCA - Feasts and Saints.

Pre-Schism Western saints Martyr Antiochus of Sulcis, under the Emperor Hadrian (c. 110)December 13. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. Virgin Martyr Lucia (Lucy) of Syracuse (304)Great Synaxaristes: : Ἡ Ἁγία Λουκία ἡ Παρθενομάρτυς. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.Virgin Martyr Lucy of Syracuse. OCA - Feasts and Saints.Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. LUCY, V.M. (A.D. 303.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifteenth: December. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 168-170. Saint Columba of Terryglass and Holy Island on Lough Derg, Ireland (549)December 26 / December 13. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). (see also: December 12) Saint Judoc (Judocus, Judganoc, Josse) of Ponthieu, Priest, brother of King Judicäel of Brittany, became a hermit in Villiers-Saint-Josse (c. 668)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. JUDOC, P.H. (7TH CENT.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifteenth: December. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 173-174. Saint Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai-Arras in France, founded monasteries including Saint Vaast in Arras (669)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. AUTBERT, B. OF CAMBRAI. (A.D. 668.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifteenth: December. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 171-173. Saint Odilia (Otilia, Othilia) of Alsace, Gaul (c. 720)Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (M.A.). "S. ODILIA, V. (ABOUT A.D. 720.)." In: The Lives of the Saints. Volume the Fifteenth: December. London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. pp. 174-175. Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet, a disciple of Saint Mildred, whom she probably succeeded as Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet in 716 (751) Saint Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria and a great monastic benefactor, became a monk at Jumièges Abbey, reposed at Lorsch Abbey (c. 794) Saints Einhildis and Roswinda, nuns at Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace in France with Saint Ottilia (8th century) Saint Wilfrid (Wiffred), a monk and Abbot of the Monastery of St Victor in Marseilles, France (1021)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints Venerable Arcadius of Vyazma, Monk of Novotorsk (Novotorzhok), disciple of Saint Ephrem (1077)Venerable Arcadius of Novotorsk. OCA - Feasts and Saints. Saints Neophytos, Ignatios, Prokopios, and Neilos, founders of Machairas Monastery, Cyprus (1145, 1172)Great Synaxaristes: : Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νεόφυτος, Ἰγνάτιος, Προκόπιος καὶ Νεῖλος κτίτορες τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Μαχαιρᾶ. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Saint Mardarius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th century)Venerable Mardarios the Recluse of the Kiev Caves. OCA - Feasts and Saints. Saint Dositheus (Dosifey, Dosoftei), Metropolitan of Moldavia, Romania (1693) Venerable Nicodemus (Nikodemos) of RomaniaVenerable Nikodemos the Romanian. OCA - Feasts and Saints. Venerable Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836).Repose of Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America. OCA - Feasts and Saints. (see also: August 9 - Glorification) Saint Innocent of Kherson (1857)

New martyrs and confessors New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Gavrilo) I Rajić, Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch (1659)Hieromartyr Gabriel of Serbia. OCA - Feasts and Saints.Great Synaxaristes: : Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Πεκίου Σερβίας. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. New Hieromartyr Alexander Yuzefovich, Priest, and Martyr John Menkov (1920) 13 декабря (ст.ст.) 26 декабря 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). New Hieromartyr Vladimir Lozina-Lozinsky, Protopresbyter of Saint Petersburg (1937)The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 93. New Hieromartyrs Alexander Pospelov and Jacob Gusev, Priests (1937) New Hieromartyr Nicholas Amasiysky, Priest of Alma-Ata (1938) New Hieromartyrs Emilian Kireyev and Basil Pokrov, Priests (1941)

Other commemorations

Sunday of the Holy Forefathers of Jesus Christ (December 11–17) Commemoration of the miracle by the Holy Five Martyrs Repose of Schemamonk Panteleimon "the Resurrected" of Glinsk Hermitage (1895) Repose of Blessed Maximus of Ustiug (1906) Repose of Bishop Theodore, Wonderworker of Trolov Convent in Kiev (1924) Repose of Hieromonk Joel of Valaam (1937) Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim Iscu of Tismana Monastery, Romania (1951)

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Sources December 13/26. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). December 26 / December 13. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). December 13. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 93. December 13. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Greek Sources Great Synaxaristes: 13 ΔΕΚΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. Συναξαριστής. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources 26 декабря (13 декабря). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). 13 декабря (ст.ст.) 26 декабря 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).