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December 21
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January 3
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31st Sunday after Pentecost.
Tone 6.
Рождественский пост. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Virginmartyr Juliana of Nicomedia, and with her 500 men and 130 women (304). 
St. Peter, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1326).
Martyr Theomistocles of Myra in Lycia (251). St. Juliana, princess of Vyazma (Novotorzhok) (1406). Blessed Procopius of Vyatka, fool-for-Christ (1627). St. Philaret (Theodosius in schema), metropolitan of Kiev (1857).
New Hieromartyr Nicetas (Pribytkov), bishop of Belev (1937).
St. Macarius the Faster, abbot of Khakhuli Monastery (11th c.). Finding of the relics of New Monk-martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1950).
Repose of Blessed Peter “the Nose,” of Kama (ca. 1938), Schemamonk Michael of Harbin (1939), and Mother Stavritsa, missionary in Kenya (2000).