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Orthodox Calendar, December 10 The Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus They suffered for their faith in Christ under the emperor Maximian (305-313). Saint Menas was sent by the emperor from Athens to Alexandria to…

Orthodox Calendar, December 9 Saint Anna, the mother of the Virgin Mary She was the youngest daughter of the priest Nathan from Bethlehem, descended from the tribe of Levi. She married Saint Joachim (September 9),…

Orthodox Calendar, December 8 Saint Patapius He was born at Thebes into a pious Christian family. Reaching the age of maturity, he scorned the vanities of the world and so went into the Egyptian desert…

Orthodox Calendar, December 5 Saint Sava the Sanctified He was born in the fifth century at Cappadocia of pious Christian parents, John and Sophia. His father was a military commander. Journeying to Alexandria on military…

Orthodox Calendar December 4 Holy Great Martyr Barbara She lived and suffered during the reign of the emperor Maximian (305-311). Her father, the pagan Dioscorus, was a rich and illustrious man in the Egyptian city…

Orthodox Calendar December 3 Saint George of Cernica He was born in 1730, and became a monk on Mount Athos when he was a young man. He was a disciple of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (November…

Orthodox Calendar, December 2 Saints Cleopas and Paisius of Sihăstria Venerable and God-bearing Father Paisie of Sihăstria was born on 20 June 1897 in the village of Stroești, Botoșani County, into the Christian family of…

Orthodox Calendar December 1 Saint Anastasia, the Mother of Saint Andrew Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania Blessed Anastasia was born in 1785 to faithful parents, Aromanian merchants from Macedonia who had settled in Miskolc, Hungary. Raised…