December 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Prophet Habakkuk
• Martyr Myrope of Chios, under Decius
• Martyr Abibus the New, Deacon, burned at the stake
• Saints John, Heraclemon, Andrew and Theophilus, of Oxyrhynchus, hermits of Egypt
• Saint Moses the Confessor.
• Venerable Jesse, Bishop of Tsilkani in Georgia
• Saint Solomon, Archbishop of Ephesus

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Evasius, First Bishop of Brescia in Italy.
• Saint Lupus, Bishop of Verona in Italy, Confessor.
• Martyrs Eusebius, a priest; Marcellus, a deacon; Hippolytus, Maximus, Adria, Paulina, Neon, Mary, Martana, and Aurelia - under Valerian
• Martyr Pontian, with four others, at Rome, under Valerian
• Saint Bibiana, a holy virgin martyred in Rome
• Saint Chromatius, Bishop of Aquileia near Venice, friend of St John Chrysostom, Confessor
• Martyrs Severus, Securus, Januarius and Victorinus, martyrs in North Africa who suffered under the Vandals
• Saint Silverius, Pope of Rome
• Saint Trumwine of Abercorn, the only ever Bishop of the Northumbrian see of the Picts

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Cyril of Phileotes
• Venerable Abbacum the Ascetic of Cyprus, Wonderworker
• Saint Athanasius “the Resurrected,” recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Near Caves
• Saint Athanasius, recluse of the Kiev Caves, whose relics are in the Far Caves
• Saint Stephen-Urosh V, King of Serbia, and his mother St. Helena, of Serbia.
• Saint Joannicius of Devič, Serbia
• Venerable Hiero-Confessor, Schema-Archimandrite, of Khust, Apostle of Carpatho-Russia
• Venerable Elder Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia, an Athonite hieromonk known for his gifts of spiritual discernment

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr John, priest
• New Hieromartyr Matthew Alexandrov, priest of Simferopol-Crimea
• New Hieromartyr Demetrius Blagoveshtensky, priest, and Venarable Vera Grafovoy, Confessor
• New Hieromartyrs :
• * Constantine Nekrasov and Nicholas Vinogradsky, Protopresbyters of Moscow;
• * Sergius Felitsin, Vladimir Proferansov, John Derzhavin, Theodore Alexinsky, Nicholas Zabolotsky, John Dniprovsky, Nicholas Safonov, Priests;
• * Hieromartyrs Danact Kalashnikov of Moscow and Alma Ata, and Cosmas Magda;
• * Hieromartyrs : Theuromia, Tamara Provorkinoy, Antonina Stepanova, and Mary Dmitrievska;
• * Virgin-martyrs: Mary Zhuravlevoy and Matrona Konyukhova.
• Virgin-martyr Mary Zeitlin
• Martyr Boris Uspensky

  Other commemorations

• Repose of Elder Luke “the Guestmaster” of Valaam,

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