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30th Sunday after Pentecost. Sunday before the Nativity. Sunday of the Holy Fathers.
Tone 5.
Nativity Fast. |
 Wine and oil allowed.
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Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. 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. Nicephorus the Leper and Wonderworker, of Chios (1963).
New Hieromartyrs Dimitry Kiranov, archpriest, of Yaroslavl, and Theodore Poroikov, archpriest, of Yalta (1937).
St. Boris (Talantov) of Kostroma (1970).
Repose of Monk Dositheus, hermit, of the Roslavl Forests and Optina Monastery (1828).
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