December 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

December 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 23.

Saints

 * Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch (181)
 * Martyr Niser, under Maximian, by fire (c. 286-305)
 * Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nicholas of Myra), Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (c. 345)
 * Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Patara, uncle of St. Nicholas of Myra (4th century)
 * Saint Abramius, Bishop of Cratea (Kratia) in Bithynia (6th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Asella (406)
 * Saints Auxilius, Isserninus and Secundinus, missionaries with St Patrick in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th century)
 * Martyrs Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus, in North Africa under the Arian Vandal Hunneric (c. 484)
 * Saint Gertrude the Elder, founder and first Abbess of Hamaye (Hamay, Hamage) near Douai, in north France (649)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus (1305)
 * New Martyr Nicholas of Karamania, in Asia Minor (1657) (see also March 19)

New martyrs and confessors

 * Hieromartyr Michael Uspensky, Priest of Moscow (1937)
 * Hieromartyr Grigol Peradze of Georgia, Archimandrite, Hieromartyr (1942)

Other commemorations

 * Icon of Our Lady of Tambov (1695)
 * The miraculous apparition of St. Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Council (325)
 * The Wonderworking icon of St. Nicholas the Drenched of St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev.
 * Name Day of Royal Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II (1918)