December 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 29

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 10 by Orthodox Churches on Old Calendar.

For December 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 15.

Feasts

 * Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.

Saints

 * Apostle Nicanor the Deacon, one of the Seven Deacons, and one of the Seventy (34)
 * Martyr Secundus, an Enlightener of Spain, sent by the Apostles to Spain to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1st century)
 * The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia (302), including:
 * Hieromartyr Glycerius, priest;
 * Deacons Theophilus and Migdonius;
 * Martyrs Zeno, Dorotheus, Mardonius, Indes, Gorgonius, Peter, and Euthymius;
 * Virgin-martyrs Agape, Domna (the former pagan priestess), Theophila, and others.
 * Martyr Ploutodoros.
 * Venerable Babylas of Tarsus in Cilicia.
 * Venerable Stephen the Wonderworker.

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Castor, Victor and Rogatian, in North Africa.
 * Saint Domnio (Domnion), a righteous priest in Rome.
 * Saints Romulus and Conindrus, two of the first people to preach Orthodoxy on the Isle of Man, they were contemporaries of St Patrick (c. 450)
 * Saint Maughold (Maccaldus), a former brigand in Ireland, was converted by St Patrick and sent to the Isle of Man, where his episcopate was very fruitful (c. 488)
 * Saint Antony of Lérins (Anthony the Hermit), renowned for miracles (c. 520)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Simon the Myrrh-gusher, founder of Simonopetra, Mt. Athos (1287)
 * Saint Ignatius, Monk, of Loma (Vologda) (Ignatii of Lomsk and Yaroslavsk) (1591)
 * Saint Cornelius, monk of Krypetsk Monastery (Pskov) (1903)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Nikodim (Kononov), Bishop of Belgorod, at Solovki (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Arcadius Reshetnikov, Deacon (1918)
 * New Hieromartyr Alexander, Priest (1920)
 * New Hieromartyrs Theoctistus, Leonid, and Nicholas, Priests (1937)
 * New Hieromartyrs Arethus, and Alexander, Priests (1938)

Other commemorations

 * Repose of Joseph the Hesychast (Romania) (1828)