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Minea icon of December. 1st Week: Holy prophet Nahum
(7th Century, BC), Righteous Philaret the Merciful of
Amnia in Asia Minor († 792), Holy Prophet Habakuk (6th
Century, BC), St John of Egypt, Holy Prophet Sophonias
(or Zephaniah 635-605 BC), Venerable Sabbas the
Sanctified Mt Athos (532), Greatmartyr Barbara at
Heliopolis, in Syria (ca 306), Holy Martyr John of
Damascus [† c. 780], Venerable Sava the Sanctified (†
532), and Saint Nicholas, the Wonderworker and
Archbishop of Myra in Lycia († c.345). 2nd Week: St
Ambrose the Bishop of Milan († 4th C), Venerable and
Godbearing Father Anthony the Great (356), Venerable
Patapius of Thebes, ?????????Beginning????????, Martyr
Menas of Alexandria († 4th C), Martyr Hermogenes of
Alexandria (†4th C), Martyr Eugraphus of Alexandria
(†4th C), Venerable Daniel the Stylite of Constantinople
(† 489-490), Saint Spyridon the Wonderworker, Bishop of
Tremithus († c 348), Holy Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius,
Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes at Sebaste. 3rd Week:
Martyr Thyrsus of Apollonia (†3rd C), Martyr Leucius of
Apollonia (†3rd C), Hieromartyr Eleutherius the Bishop
of Illyria, Saint Stephen the Confessor, Archbishop of
Surozh in the Crimea (8th C), : Prophet Haggai († 5th C.
B.C.), Resurrection of Christ, Daniel the Confessor (in
Schema Stephen) of Spain, and Egypt and Holy Youths
Ananias, Azarias and Misael, xxxxxxx17-18xxxxxxx, Martyr
Sebastian at Rome († 3rd C), Holy Martyr Boniface [Vonifantiy,
† 290] at Tarsus in Cilicia, Hieromartyr Ignatius [Ignatiy,
† 107] the God-Bearer, Bishop of Antioch, Holy
Virgin-martyr Juliana [Iuliana, Iuliania] of Nicomedia
(† 304), St Peter the Metropolitan of Moscow and
Wonderworker of All Russia († 1326), Holy Great-martyr
Anastasia the "Deliverer from Bonds" at Rome [† c. 304],
Martyrs Theodulus, Saturninus, and Euporus of Crete
(†3rd C), The Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus
Christ. 4th Week: Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of
God, Hieromartyr Theodore the Archbishop of Alexandria
[Feodor, † c. 606], Afterfeast of the Nativity of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 14,000 Infants (the Holy
Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem, Virginmartyr
Anysia at Thessalonica († 3rd C), Hieromartyr Zoticus,
Protector of Orphans († 4th C), and Venerable Melania
the Younger of Rome († 439). |
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