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December 22
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January 4
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32nd Week after Pentecost.
Tone 6.
Nativity Fast. |
 Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).
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Great-martyr Anastasia of Rome, the Deliverer from Bonds (ca. 304), and her teacher Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them Martyrs Theodota, Evodias, Eutychianus, and others, who suffered under Diocletian (304).
St. Boris (Talantov) of Kostroma (1970).
Repose of Monk Dositheus, hermit, of the Roslavl Forests and Optina Monastery (1828).