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December 20
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January 2
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31st Week after Pentecost. Saturday before the Nativity.
Tone 5.
Рождественский пост. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. 
Hieromartyr Ignatius the Godbearer, bishop of Antioch (107). 
Repose of Righteous John of Kronstadt (1908). St. Anthony (Smirnitsky), archbishop of Voronezh (1846).
St. Philogonius, bishop of Antioch (323). St. Daniel II, archbishop of Serbia (1338). St. Ignatius, archimandrite, of the Kiev Caves (1435).
New Martyr John of the island of Thasos, at Constantinople (1652).