December 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

  Saints

• Great Martyr Anastasia the Roman, Deliverer from Bonds, and:
• Hieromartyr Zoilus, Priest, under Diocletian

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyrs Demetrius, Honoratus and Florus, in Ostia in Italy.
• Thirty Holy Martyrs of Rome
• Saint Flavian, an ex-prefect of Rome
• Saint Hunger of Utrecht, Bishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands from 856; during the Norman invasion he fled to Prüm in Germany where he died
• Saint Amaswinthus of Málaga, monk and Abbot for forty-two years at a monastery in Silva de Málaga in Spain

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyrs Demetrius and Theodore, Priests
• New Martyr Boris Talantov of Kostroma, Soviet teacher, participant in the dissident movement in the USSR, church publicist and political prisoner

  Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Thyranoixia of the "Great Church of Christ", the Hagia Sophia.
• Repose of Monk Dositheus, hermit of the Roslavl Forests and Optina Monastery

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