December 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Hieromartyr Alexander of Jerusalem, Bishop of Jerusalem
• Martyr Aitherius, under Maximian, tortured and beheaded for refusing to sacrifice to idols
• Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus
• Venerable Amonathus, monk.
• Venerable Anthus, monk.
• Saint Euphemiane.
• Martyr John, Abbot of the Zedazeni Monastery, Georgia

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyr Synesius of Rome, a Reader, tortured and beheaded for refusing to sacrifice to idols
• Martyrs Maxentius, Constantius, Crescentius, Justinus and their Companions, martyrs in Trier in Germany in the reign of Diocletian, under the governor Rictiovarus
• Saint Abra of Poitiers, daughter of St Hilary of Poitiers in France
• Saint Corentinus of Quimper, first Bishop of Quimper in Brittany, he had lived as a hermit at Plomodiern
• Saint Finian of Clonard and Skellig Michael, teacher of Ireland and one of the fathers of Irish monasticism
• Saint Columba of Terryglass, born in Leinster in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Finian and Abbot of Tyrdaglas in Munster
• Saint Gregory of Terracina, a disciple of St Benedict, and with his brother St Speciosus, a monk at Terracina in Italy
• Saint Cormac, an Abbot in Ireland and friend of St Columba
• Saint Colman of Glendalough in Ireland, Abbot
• Saint Agatha, nun at Wimborne in Dorset in England and a disciple of St Lioba, she went to Germany to help St Boniface in his missionary work

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint John, Metropolitan of Zichon, founder of the Monastery of the Forerunner on Mt. Menikion
• Venerable Therapontus, Abbot of Monza

  Other commemorations

• Synaxis of the First Martyrs of the American land:
• Repose of Flegont, Stylite of Kimlyai, Mordovia

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