daily saints

†) Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus

Orthodox Calendar, December 12 Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tremithus was born towards the end of the third century on the island of Cyprus. He was a shepherd, and had a wife and children. He used all his substance for the needs of his neighbors and the homeless, for…

Dec 12, 2025basilica.ro

Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus of Alexandria

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 suppress the riots that had arisen between the Christians and the pagans. Distinguished for his gift of eloquence, Menas instead…

Dec 10, 2025basilica.ro

The Conception by Righteous Anna of the Most Holy Mother of God; Prophetess Hannah the mother of the Prophet Samuel (Fish allowed)

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), who was a native of Galilee. For a long time Saint Anna was childless, but after twenty years, through the…

Dec 9, 2025basilica.ro

St. Patapius of Thebes; Apostles Caesar, Tychicus, and Onesiphorus of the Seventy

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 where he became known for his ascetic deeds. Though he wished to dwell in silence, people began to come to…

Dec 8, 2025basilica.ro

†) St. Philothea of Argeş, the Protectress of Romania; St. Ambrose the Bishop of Milan; 27th Sunday after Pentecost (Fish allowed)

Orthodox Calendar, December 7 Saint Philothea (Philofthea) of Argeş She was born in Trnovo, the old capital of Bulgaria, around 1206. Her father was a farmer, and her mother was from Wallachia. She died when Philothea was still a child, and her father remarried. The child was often punished by her stepmother, who accused her…

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†) St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (Fish allowed)

Orthodox Calendar, December 6 Saint Nicholas Saint Nicholas, the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia is famed as a great saint pleasing unto God. He was born in the city of Patara in the region of Lycia (on the south coast of the Asia Minor peninsula) and was the only son of pious parents Theophanes…

Dec 6, 2025basilica.ro

†) St. Sava the Sanctified; Martyr Anastasius

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 matters, John and Sophia left their five-year-old son Sava in the care of an uncle. When the boy reached eight…

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† Greatmartyr Barbara at Heliopolis, in Syria; St. John of Damascus (Fish permitted)

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 of Heliopolis. After the death of his wife, he devoted himself to his only daughter. Seeing Barbara’s extraordinary beauty, Dioscorus…

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†) Saint George of Cernica and Căldăruşani; Prophet Zephaniah

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 15) who was then the igumen of Vatopedi Monastery.Since the skete at Cernica had been deserted for almost thirty years,…

Dec 3, 2025basilica.ro

Saints Cleopas and Paisius of Sihăstria; Prophet Habakkuk; Martyr Myrope of Chios; Saint Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite; Hierarch Solomon, Archbishop of Ephesus (Fish permitted)

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 Ioan and Ecaterina Olaru, who were blessed by God with ten children. Born near the feast of the Holy Apostles…

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Saint Anastasia, the Mother of Saint Andrew Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania; Prophet Nahum; St. Philaret the Merciful (Te Deum)

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 in the fear of God, in honour and in the Orthodox faith, she married Naum, the son of a merchant…

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