Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
December 29
Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,
Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics
- Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.
- The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem
LITURGY: II Cor 5:15 21; Matt 2:13 23
- St. Marcellus, abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones.
- St. Thaddaeus, confessor, of the Studion.
- St. Benjamin, monk of Nitria in Egypt.
- St. Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great.
- St. George, Bishop of Nicomedia.
- St. Mark the Grave digger of the Kiev Caves.
- Saints Theophilus and John of the Kiev Caves.
- St. Theophilus of Luga and Omutch.
- Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.
- Repose of Elder Basiliscus of Siberia (1824).
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