December 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 10

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

• The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos.^[1][2]

Saints

• Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 BC)^[3][4]
• Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (c. 284-305)^{[5][note 2]}
• 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)^{[6][note 3]} (see also December 7 - Slavonic)
• Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553)^[7][8]
• Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th century)^[9] (see also: December 8)
• Martyr Nerses of Persia, by the sword.^[8][10]
• Martyr Isaac.^[11]
• Saint Stephen “the New Light” of Constantinople (912)^{[12][13][note 4]}

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Syrus of Pavia, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy (c. 1st century)^[15]
• 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)^[8][15]
• Saint Nectarius of Auvergne (c. 300)^{[citation needed]}
• Virgin-martyr Leocadia (Locaie), in Toledo, Spain (c. 303)^[15][16]
• Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (c. 320)^[15]
• Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa.^[15][17]
• Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586)^[15]
• Saint Augard, hermit at Saint-Augard-en-Paule in Brittany (6th century)^{[citation needed]}
• Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr.^[15][17]
• Saint Balda, third Abbess of Jouarre in France (7th century)^[15]
• Saint Budoc (Budeaux), born in Brittany, became Abbot of Youghal in Ireland, then Bishop of Dol in Brittany (7th century?)^[15] (see also: December 8)
• Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury (896)^{[15][note 5]}
• Saint Egbert of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (993)^[19]
• Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England (c. 1000)^[15]
• Saint Enguerrammus (Angilram) 'the Wise', monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France (1045)^[15]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Hieromonk Anthymus the Athonite, "Fool for Christ"^[20]

New martyrs and confessors

• 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

• Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem (335)^[8]
• Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)^[8]
• Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867)^[8]
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".^[8][22][24]

Icon gallery

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