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December 5
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December 18
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27th Week after Pentecost.
Tone 1.
Nativity Fast. |
 Monastic rule: cooked food, no oil.
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St. Sabbas the Sanctified (532).
St. Karion (Cyrion) and his son St. Zachariah the Recluse, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Gurias, archbishop of Kazan (1563).
New Hieromartyrs Elias Chetverukhin, archpriest, of Moscow (1932) and Gennadius (Petlyuk), hieromonk of the Belogostitsky Monastery (Yaroslavl) (1941).
Monk-martyr Justinian of Ramsey Island, South Wales (560). St. Nicetius, bishop of Trier (566). St. Cosmas of Vatopedi (1276) and the monks of Karyes, Mt. Athos, all martyred by the Latins (1283). St. Nectarius of Bitol (1500), and his elder, St. Philotheus (late 15th c.), of Karyes Skete, Mt. Athos.
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 Venerable Sava the SanctifiedSaint Sava composed the first monastic Rule of church services, the so-called “Jerusalem Typikon”, accepted by all the Palestine monasteries. |