December 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 18

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 4.

Saints

 * Holy Prophet Daniel (600 BC) and the Three Holy Youths: Ananias, Azarias, and Misael.
 * Monk-martyrs Patermuthius and Coprius, and Martyr Alexander the Soldier, of Egypt (361-363)
 * Martyr Bacchus (Iakchos), from Triglia, by the sword.
 * Venerable Daniel the Confessor (Stephen the Confessor in schema) of Spain and Egypt (10th century)
 * Saints Athanasius, Nicholas, and Anthony, disciples of Athanasius the Athonite and founders of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (10th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Maxentiolus (Mezenceul), a disciple of St Martin of Tours in France, he founded Our Lady of Cunault (5th century)
 * Saint Tydecho of Wales, brother of Saint Cadfan (6th century)
 * Saint Briarch, born in Ireland, became a monk in Wales with St Tudwal, whom he accompanied to Brittany, built a monastery in Guingamp and reposed in Bourbiac (c. 627)
 * Saint Judicaël, son of Hoel and king of Domnonia and Brittany, much loved by his people, spent the last twenty years of his life in the monastery of Gäel near Vannes (658)
 * Saint Begga, founder and Abbess of a convent in Andenne on the Meuse in Belgium (698)
 * Saint Sturm (Sturmius), Abbot and Apostle of Saxony, founder of Fulda Monastery (Germany) (779)
 * Saint Eigil of Fulda, the fourth abbot of Fulda (822)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Martyr Nicetas of Nyssa (c. 1300)
 * Saint Dionysios of Zakynthos, Archbishop of Aegina (1624)
 * Saint Misael of Abalatsk, Hieromonk (1797)
 * New Hieromartyrs Paisius, Abbot of Trnava (Turnovo), Cacak (1814), and Abbacum, Deacon (1815), at Belgrade.

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Sergius Florinsky, Priest of Rakvere, Estonia (1918)   (see also: July 2 )
 * New Hieromartyr Nicholas Beltiukov, Protopresbyter of Perm (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Alexander Savelov, Priest of Perm (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr John Zemlyani, Priest of Alma-Ata (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Peter Pokrovsky, Priest (1937)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Elder Hadji George of Mt. Athos (1886)
 * Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Daniel (Sandu Tudor), poet of Romania (1962)
 * Repose of lay elder Panagis of Ilami, Cyprus (1989)