December 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

• Martyr Anastasios, the Fuller of Salona in Dalmatia
• Venerable Gratus, monk.
• Venerable Nonnus, monk.
• Martyr Diogenes, by stoning.
• Martyr Abercius, by the sword.
• Venerable Karion and his son St. Zachariah of Egypt
• Saint Sabbas the Sanctified

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Bassus of Nice, Bishop of Nice, martyred under Decius, his body transfixed with two huge nails
• Martyrs Julius, Potamia, Crispin, Felix, Gratus and Companions - 12 martyrs who suffered in Thagura in Numidia in North Africa under Diocletian
• Saint Crispina, a wealthy matron in Thebeste in Numidia in North Africa, who was horribly tortured and ultimately beheaded
• Saint Dalmatius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia, martyred under Maximianus Herculius
• Martyr Pelinus, Bishop of Brindisi, martyred in Confinium in the south of Italy, under Julian the Apostate
• Monk-martyr Justinian of Ramsey Island, South Wales
• Saint Nicetius, Bishop of Trier, Gaul
• Saint Friminus, the seventh Bishop of Verdun in France
• Saint Cawrdaf, a noble in Wales, ended his life as a monk with St Illtyd
• Saint Sigiranus, Abbot and Confessor
• Saint Gerbold, monk at Ebriciacum in France, later founded the monastery of Livray, became Bishop of Bayeux
• Saint Basilissa, Abbess of Oehren near Trier in Germany
• Saint John Gradenigo, a monk in Cuxa Abbey in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain, reposed as a hermit near Montecassino

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable martyrs of Karyes Skete on Mount Athos: Cosmas of Vatopedi the Protos and Companions, killed by the Latins
• Saint Philotheos the Righteous, of Karyes Skete on Mount Athos, Elder of St. Nectarius the Athonite
• Saint Nectarios the Athonite
• Saint Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan

  New martyrs and confessors

• Hieromartyr Elias Chetverukhin, Priest, of Moscow
• Hieromartyr Gennadius Letyuk, Priest-monk of Yaroslavl-Rostov
• Saint Sergius Pravdolyubov, Confessor, Priest

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