December 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 25

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 24th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 11.

Feasts

 * The Eve of the Nativity of Christ.

Saints

 * Venerable Nun-martyr Eugenia of Rome, and with her:
 * Martyrs Philip (her father), Protus and Hyacinth (Jacinth), Basilla, and Claudia (262)
 * Martyrs Sossios and Theokleios (c. 286-305).
 * Martyr Castulus (c. 307-323)
 * Martyr Achaicus, by the sword.
 * Venerable Vitimionus of Scetis (Bitimionus of Scete) (5th century)
 * Venerable Aphrodisius, monk of Palestine (6th century)
 * Venerable Antiochus of Palestine (Antiochus Strategos, Antiochos Sabbaitis), monk of the Great Lavra of St. Sabbas the Sanctified in Jerusalem (635)


 * Venerable Nicholas the Monk, of Bulgaria (Nicholas the former soldier) (c. 802-811)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Lucian, Metrobius, Paul, Zenobius, Theotimus and Drusus, in Tripoli in North Africa.
 * Hieromartyr Gregory of Spoleto, a priest martyred in Spoleto in Italy under Maximinian Herculeus.
 * Saint Delphinus, Bishop of Bordeaux in France; he helped convert St Paulinus of Nola and was an untiring opponent of Priscillianism (404)
 * Saint Venerandus, born of a senatorial family in Clermont in Auvergne in France, he became bishop there from 385-423 (423)
 * Saint Caranus (Carannus), a saint of the east of Scotland.
 * Saint Tarsila, an aunt of St Gregory the Great, sister of St Emiliana and niece of Pope Felix; she led a life of seclusion and asceticism in her paternal home (581)
 * Saint Mochua, Abbot of Timahoe (637)
 * Saint Irmina, sister of St. Adela, daughter of Dagobert II (King of the Franks) (708)
 * Saint Adela, daughter of Dagobert II (King of the Franks), first Abbess of Pfalzel near Trier in Germany (c. 730)
 * Saint Alberic (Albert), a monk at Gladbach Abbey in Germany (10th century)
 * Saint Bruno, a holy man at the monastery of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria in Germany (1050)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * New Martyr Achmed (Ahmet) the Calligrapher, at Constantinople (1682) (see also May 3 )
 * Venerable Agapios the Younger (1812).

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Innocent (Beda), Archimandrite, of Voronezh (Innokenty (Bida) of Poltava) (1928)
 * New Hieromartyr Sergius Mechev, Archpriest, of Moscow (1942)