December 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 21

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 7.

Feasts

 * Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

Saints

 * Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107) (see also January 29 )
 * Saint Philogonius, Bishop of Antioch, Confessor (323)
 * Saint Paul of Latrus (or Paul of Latra; died c. 956), a Greek hermit.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Liberatus and Bajulus, at Rome.
 * Saint Ursicinus of Cahors, Bishop of Cahors in France (ca.585)
 * Saint Dominic of Brescia, successor of St Anastasius as Bishop of Brescia in Italy (ca.612)
 * Saint Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne, born in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Columbanus, and founded the monastery of St Ursanne (ca.625)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Daniel II, Archbishop of Serbia (1338)
 * Saint Ignatius, Archimandrite of the Kiev Caves (1435)
 * New Martyr John of the island of Thasos, at Constantinople, by beheading (1652)
 * Saint Anthony (Smirnitsky), Archbishop of Voronezh (1846)
 * Righteous John of Kronstadt, Wonderworker (1908) (see also October 19 )

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Nikolai Chernishev, Archpriest, of Udmurtia (east of Kazan), and New Martyr Barbara, his daughter (1919)

Other commemorations

 * Novgorod Icon of the Theotokos, "Deliverance of the Drowning" ("Rescuer of the Drowning").