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December 23
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January 5
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29th Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday before the Nativity. Sunday of the Holy Fathers.
Tone 4.
Nativity Fast. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus (250).
St. Niphon, bishop of Constantia on Cyprus (4th c.). St. Paul, bishop of Neo-Caesarea (4th c.). St. Theoctistus, archbishop of Novgorod (1310).
New Hieromartyrs Paul (Kratirov), bishop of Starobelsk (1932), and Macarius (Mironov), hieromonk, of Zavidovskaya Gorka (Tver), and John (Smirnov), hieromonk, of Bolshoye Mikhailovskoye (Tver) (1937).
St. David of Echmiadzin in Armenia (693). St. Egbert of Rathmelsigi (Neth.) (729). St. Nahum of Ochrid, enlightener of the Bulgarians (910).
Repose of Eldress Eudocia Rodionova of Leushino, fool-for-Christ (1886).