December

  • 19 November/2 December

    Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow and Kolomna is without doubt the most important figure in the history of the Russian Church of the...
  • 23 November / 6 December

    Holy Hierarch, Bishop of Voronezh Metrophanes, in the world Michael, was born on November 8, 1623. In the Holy Hierarch’s diptych of...
  • 25 November/8 December

    Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, was born in Rome into a wealthy and distinguished family. Separated by force of circumstances from his...
  • 29 November/12 December

    One of the thirteen holy Syrian (Cappadocian) fathers, founders of Georgian monasticism, who came to Georgia during the 6th Century (their...
  • 1/14 December

    Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy (Matthew 5:7) ­ said our Lord Jesus Christ. This was realized in the righteous Philaret the...
  • 3/16 December

    Venerable Savva, abbot of Storozhev, Miracle-worker of Zvenigorod, was quite young when he came to the Monastery of Venerable St. Sergius of Radonezh...
  • 4/17 December

    The Holy Great-martyr Barbara lived and suffered during the reign of Emperor Maximian (305-311). Her father, a pagan named Dioscoros, was an eminent,...
  • 4/17 December

    The renowned writer and Church poet, Saint John Damascene, served at the court of the caliph in his youth and was the ruler of the city of Damascus. A...
  • 5/18 December

    St. Gurias (in the world Gregory Rugotin) was the first archbishop of the Kazan archdiocese, established in 1555. He grew up in an aristocratic family...
  • 6/19 December

    Holy Hierarch Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia, was glorified as a great saint of God. He was born in the city of Patara in Lycia...
  • 12/25 December

    Venerable Herman of Alaska was born in the town of Serpukhov, near Moscow, in 1757, into a merchant family. At the age of sixteen, he entered onto the...
  • 11/24 December

    Venerable Nicon Sukhoi of the Caves was born in Kiev, and was tonsured in the Kiev Caves Monastery. His parents were of renowned ancestry and wealth...
  • 12/25 December

    Holy Hierarch St. Spyridon of Tremithus was born at the close of the 3rd Century on the island of Cyprus. Little information about his life has...
  • Bishop Gabriel was born in the Village of Bakhvi, Ozuretsk District (Western Georgia) on November 15, 1825, into the family of Priest Maxim Kikodze. In the years 1840-45, Gabriel (then called Gerasim...

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