December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Dec. 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 10
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Dec. 22 by Old Calendarists
==Saints==
*Conception of the Virgin Mary
*Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 B.C.)
*St. Valeria of Aquitaine (2nd century)
*Martyr Sositheus of Persia (553)
*St. Stephen the "New Light" of Constantinople (912)
*New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechev of Moscow (1941)
*Martyr Nerses of Persia
==Icons==
*Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy" 
==Other Commemorations==
*Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophronieve Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
*Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867)
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