December 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 5
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 17 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 21.Saints
- Commemoration of the Twelve Prophets.
- Apostle Crispus of the Seventy Apostles, Bishop of Chalcedon
- Great-martyr Barbara, at Heliopolis in Syria
- Martyr Juliana, at Heliopolis in Syria
- Martyrs Christodoulos and Christodoula, by the sword.
- Saint John the Wonderworker, Bishop of Polybotum, in Phrygia Salutaris
- Saint John of Damascus, monk of St. Sabbas Monastery
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Felix of Bologna, a Deacon of the Church of Milan with St Ambrose, and later the fifth Bishop of Bologna
- Saint Bertoara, Abbess of Notre-Dame-de-Sales in Bourges
- Saint Ada, niece of Engebert, Bishop of Le Mans, she became a nun at Soissons, and Abbess in Le Mans
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Cassian the Martyr, one of the "300 Allemagne Saints" in Cyprus
- Saint Gennadius of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod
- New Hieromartyr, Archbishop of Phanarion and Neochorion
- Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest
- New Martyrs of Perm :
- * Hieromartyrs Alexis Saburov, John Pyankov, Protopresbyters.
- * Alexander Posokhin and Nicholas Yakhontov, Priests.
- * Basil Kashin, Deacon, and with him 10 Martyrs.
- Hieromartyr Damascene, Bishop of Glukhov,
- Hieromartyr Demetrius Nevedomsky, Priest
- Virgin-martyrs Catherine Arskoy and Kyra Obolensky
- Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky, Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke, Missionary of America
Other commemorations
- Icon of the Mother of God of Damascus
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