December 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 5

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 17 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 21.

Saints

 * Commemoration of the Twelve Prophets (Twelve Minor Prophets).
 * Apostle Crispus of the Seventy Apostles, Bishop of Chalcedon (1st century)
 * Great-martyr Barbara, at Heliopolis in Syria (306)
 * Martyr Juliana, at Heliopolis in Syria (306)
 * Martyrs Christodoulos and Christodoula, by the sword.
 * Saint John the Wonderworker, Bishop of Polybotum, in Phrygia Salutaris (716)
 * Saint John of Damascus (John Damascene), monk of St. Sabbas Monastery (749)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Felix of Bologna, a Deacon of the Church of Milan with St Ambrose, and later the fifth Bishop of Bologna (429)
 * Saint Bertoara, Abbess of Notre-Dame-de-Sales in Bourges (614)
 * Saint Ada, niece of Engebert, Bishop of Le Mans, she became a nun at Soissons, and Abbess in Le Mans (7th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Cassian the Martyr (Kassianos), one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus (late 12th century) (see also October 6)
 * Saint Gennadius of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod (1504)
 * New Hieromartyr Seraphim of Phanarion, Archbishop of Phanarion and Neochorion (1601)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Hieromartyr Nicholas (Tsedrik), Priest (1917)
 * New Martyrs of Perm (1918):
 * Hieromartyrs Alexis Saburov, John Pyankov, Protopresbyters.
 * Alexander Posokhin and Nicholas Yakhontov, Priests.
 * Basil Kashin, Deacon, and with him 10 Martyrs.
 * Hieromartyr Damascene (Tsedrik), Bishop of Glukhov, (son of priest Nicholas (Tsedrik)) (1935)
 * Hieromartyr Demetrius Nevedomsky, Priest (1937)
 * Virgin-martyrs Catherine Arskoy and Kyra Obolensky (1937)
 * Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky, Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke, Missionary of America (1937)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of the Mother of God of Damascus (Panayia Tricherousa, "Three-handed Theotokos") (c. 717)