December 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.

  Saints

• The 14,000 Infants slain by Herod at Bethlehem, the first Christian martyrs.
• Venerable Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great
• Venerable Benjamin, monk, of Nitria in Egypt
• Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones , Constantinople
• Venerable Thaddeus, Confessor, of the Studion Monastery
• Venerable Saint George, Bishop of Nicomedia, composer of Canons and Troparia

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France
• Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in Rome.
• Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus and Honoratus, martyrs in North Africa.
• Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France
• Saint Ebrulfus, Abbot, born in Bayeux, became a monk at the monastery of Deux-Jumeaux, later founding a monastery at Pays d'Ouche in Normany, and other smaller monasteries
• Saint Girald, a monk at Lagny in France, later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul; he became Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey, where he was murdered

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Mark the Grave-digger, of the Kiev Caves
• Saints Theophilus and John, of the Kiev Caves
• Saint Theophilus, Abbot, of Luga and Omutch , disciple of St. Arsenius of Konevits.
• Saint :ru:Василиск Сибирский|Basiliscus, Elder, the Hesychast of Siberia
• Venerable Laurence of Chernigov

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Arcadius, Bishop of Tver
• New Hieromartyr Theodosius Belenky, Priest, at Chimkent
• Virgin-martyrs: Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia, Ephrosia, Agrippina and Natalia

  Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the consecration of the church of the Holy Forty Martyrs, near the Copper Tetrapyle.
• Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who have died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.

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