# December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 10
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 26.

## Feasts

* The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos.

## Saints

* Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 BC)
* Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (c. 284-305)
* Saint Bassa (Vassa), Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of St Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos (5th century) (see also December 7 - Slavonic)
* Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553)
* Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th century) (see also: December 8)
* Martyr Nerses of Persia, by the sword.
* Martyr Isaac.
* Saint Stephen “the New Light” of Constantinople (912)

## Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint Syrus of Pavia, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy (c. 1st century)
* Virgin-martyr Valerie of Limoges (Valeria of Aquitaine), by tradition she was converted by St Martial of Limoges in France and beheaded (1st or 3rd century)
* Saint Nectarius of Auvergne (c. 300)
* Virgin-martyr Leocadia (Locaie), in Toledo, Spain (c. 303)
* Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (c. 320)
* Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa.
* Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586)
* Saint Augard, hermit at Saint-Augard-en-Paule in Brittany (6th century)
* Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr.
* Saint Balda, third Abbess of Jouarre in France (7th century)
* Saint Budoc (Budeaux), born in Brittany, became Abbot of Youghal in Ireland, then Bishop of Dol in Brittany (7th century?) (see also: December 8)
* Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury (896)
* Saint Egbert of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (993)
* Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England (c. 1000)
* Saint Enguerrammus (Angilram) 'the Wise', monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France (1045)

## Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Hieromonk Anthymus the Athonite, "Fool for Christ"

### New martyrs and confessors

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

## Other commemorations

* Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem (335)
* Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
* Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867)
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".

## Icon gallery

* Saint Anne with the Virgin Mary. (Angelos Akotanos, 15th century).
* The Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna.
* Stained glass of St. Anne and the child St. Mary. (St. John the Baptist, Vincennes, Indiana.).
* Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of Prophet Samuel. (Paris Psalter, 10th century).
* Bottom: When Samuel was weaned, Hannah and Elkanah brought him to the temple. (William de Brailes, c. 1250).
* St. Sophronius, Archbishop of Cyprus (Menologion of Basil II, 10th century).
* The Beheading of St. Valerie of Limoges. (Fresco of the first bay north, Cheylat chapel, Saint-Geniès, Dordogne, France).
* Close-up of altar relief: St Valerie of Limoges presents her own head to her confessor, St Martial. (Altar in St Michel des Lions, Limoges).
* Saints Firmus and Rusticus of Verona with an angel, by Sebastiano Ricci. Saint Proculus of Verona is seated. (Sebastiano Ricci, 1704).
* Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy". (19th century)