December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 10

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For December 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 26.

Feasts

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Saints

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Pre-Schism Western saints

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Post-Schism Orthodox saints

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New martyrs and confessors

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  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vinogradov, priest (1919)[21][22]
  • New Hieromartyr Vladimir Dzhurinsky, priest and Virgin-martyr Ephrosia Dzhurinsky (1920)[21][22]
  • New Hieromartyrs Basil Yagodin, Protopresbyter, and Alexander Buravtsev, priests (1937)[21][22][23]
  • New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechiev of Moscow (1941)[21][23]
  • New-Martyr Archpriest Paul Levashov of Gomel.[23]

Other commemorations

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Notes

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  1. ^ The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
    The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
  2. ^ He is unknown in the Synaxarion of St. Nicodemus and absent in the Menaia. However his memory is preserved in Parisian Codex 1621. The biography of this martyr is similar to that of the martyr Euplos (Efplus) (August 11), and it is not impossible that due to a scribal error that Euplos became Easios.
  3. ^ Her memory is preserved in the Jerusalemitic Canonarion, pg.120.
  4. ^ The Monk Stephen the New-Radiant was born at Constantinople and received a fine education. Under Patriarch Methodios (82-846) Stephen accepted monastic tonsure and entered amongst the clergy at one of the Constantinople churches. Later he went into seclusion and over a span of 50 years he constantly increased his ascetic efforts. Towards the end of his life the monk acquired from the Lord a great grace, shining in the constellation of the Saints like to the ancient ascetics of the Orthodox Church of old, so that he came to be called the "New-Radiant". According to the prologue-accounts of the Saints, he died in the year 912.[14]
  5. ^ "ST. ETHELGIVA, or ÆTHELGIFU, was the daughter of the great King Alfred and his saintly wife Ethelwida. Recognising her vocation to the religious state, the King built and endowed the monastery at Shaftesbury for her reception. She was appointed Abbess, and after a life of eminent holiness, there ended her days about the year 896."[18]

References

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  1. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Σύλληψις Ἁγίας Ἄννης. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  2. ^ The Conception by Righteous Anna of the Most Holy Mother of God. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  3. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Ἄννα ἡ Προφήτιδα Μητέρα τοῦ Προφήτη Σαμουήλ. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  4. ^ Prophetess Hannah the mother of the Prophet Samuel. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  5. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐάσιος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  6. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Βάσσα. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  7. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Σωσίθεος ὁ Μάρτυρας. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g December 9/22. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  9. ^ Saint Sophronius, Archbishop of Cyprus. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  10. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ναρσὴς ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Πέρσης. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  11. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰσαὰκ ὁ Μάρτυρας. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  12. ^ Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος ὁ νεολαμπὴς ὁ ἐν τῷ Ἁγίῳ Ἀντίπα κειμένου. 9 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  13. ^ Saint Stephen the "New Light" of Constantinople. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  14. ^ The Monk Stephen the New-Radiant. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l December 9. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  16. ^ RUSSIAN CHURCH OFFICIALLY ADDS SAINTS OF SPAIN, PORTUGAL TO LITURGICAL CALENDAR. Orthodox Christianity. January 4, 2019.
  17. ^ a b The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 378-379
  18. ^ Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p.590.
  19. ^ "Святые Германии". www.rus-kirche-baden.de. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  20. ^ Hieromonk Anthimus the Athonite, "Fool for Christ". OCA - Feasts and Saints.
  21. ^ a b c d December 22 / December 9. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  22. ^ a b c d (in Russian) 9 декабря (ст.ст.) 22 декабря 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
  23. ^ a b c The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.92.
  24. ^ "Unexpected Joy" Icon of the Mother of God. OCA - Feasts and Saints.

Sources

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  • December 9/22. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
  • December 22 / December 9. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
  • December 8. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
  • The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 92.
  • December 9. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
  • The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 378–379.

Greek Sources

Russian Sources