December 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 22

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 8.

Feasts

 * Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

Saints

 * Martyr Theomistocles of Myra in Lycia (251)
 * Virgin- martyr Juliana of Nicomedia, and with her 500 men by the sword,  and 130 women by beheading.  (304)
 * Venerable Macarius the Faster, Abbot of Khakhuli Monastery (c. 1034)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Honoratus of Toulouse, born in Spain, he succeeded St Saturninus as Bishop of Toulouse in France (3rd century)
 * Saint Severinus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (c. 300)
 * Martyrs John and Festus, martyrs honoured in Tuscany in Italy.
 * Saint Baudacarius, A monk at Bobbio Abbey in the north of Italy (650)
 * Saint Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims (882)
 * Saint Beornwald of Bampton (Bernwald), a righteous priest in Bampton in Oxfordshire in England (10th century)
 * Saint John Vincent, born in Ravenna, he became a monk at St. Michael in Chiusa, then a hermit on Monte Caprario, finally he became Bishop nearby (1012)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Peter of Kiev, Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow, Wonderworker of All Russia (1326)
 * Saint Juliana, Princess of Vyazma (Novotorzhok) (1406)
 * Blessed Procopius of Vyatka, Fool-for-Christ (1627)
 * Saint Anton II of Georgia, Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia (1827)
 * Saint Philaret (Theodosius in schema), Metropolitan of Kiev (1857)
 * Righteous-Virgin Yulianiya Solvychegodska (17th century)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Michael Kiselev, Priest, at Perm (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Sergius, Deacon (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Nicetas (Pribytkov), Bishop of Belev (Belevsk) (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Leontius, Deacon (1940)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Blessed Peter “the Nose,” of Kama (c. 1938)
 * Repose of Schemamonk Michael of Harbin (1939)
 * Finding of the relics (1950) of New Monk-martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1426)
 * Repose of Mother Stavritsa the Missionary, missionary in Kenya (2000)