December 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 9.

Feasts

 * Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

Saints

 * Great Martyr Anastasia of Sirmium, Deliverer from Bonds, and:
 * her teacher Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them:
 * the Martyrs Theodota, Evodius,  Eutychianus, and others, who suffered under Diocletian (304)


 * Hieromartyr Zoilus, Priest, under Diocletian (304)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Demetrius, Honoratus and Florus, in Ostia in Italy. (see also: November 21)
 * Thirty Holy Martyrs of Rome (ca.303)
 * Saint Flavian, an ex-prefect of Rome (362)
 * Saint Hunger of Utrecht (Hungerus Frisus), Bishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands from 856; during the Norman invasion he fled to Prüm in Germany where he died (866)
 * Saint Amaswinthus of Málaga, monk and Abbot for forty-two years at a monastery in Silva de Málaga in Spain (982)
 * Saint Israel of Limoges, canon and precentor (1014)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * &mdash;

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyrs Demetrius and Theodore, Priests (1938)
 * New Martyr Boris Talantov of Kostroma, Soviet teacher, participant in the dissident movement in the USSR, church publicist and political prisoner (1971)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the Thyranoixia (consecration) of the "Great Church of Christ", the Hagia Sophia.
 * Repose of Monk Dositheus, hermit of the Roslavl Forests and Optina Monastery (1828)