December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos.

  Saints

• Prophetess Anna, mother of the Prophet Samuel
• Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded
• Saint Bassa, and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of St Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos
• Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword
• Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus
• Martyr Nerses of Persia, by the sword.
• Martyr Isaac.
• Saint Stephen “the New Light” of Constantinople

  Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Syrus of Pavia, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy
• Virgin-martyr Valerie of Limoges, by tradition she was converted by St Martial of Limoges in France and beheaded
• Virgin-martyr Leocadia, in Toledo, Spain
• Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace
• Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa.
• Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne
• Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr.
• Saint Balda, third Abbess of :Jouarre Abbey|Jouarre in France
• Saint Budoc, born in Brittany, became Abbot of in Ireland, then in Brittany
• Saint Ethelgiva, the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury
• Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England
• Saint Enguerrammus 'the Wise', monk and Abbot of in France

  Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Hieromonk Anthymus the Athonite, "Fool for Christ"

  New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vinogradov, priest
• New Hieromartyr Vladimir Dzhurinsky, priest and Virgin-martyr Ephrosia Dzhurinsky
• New Hieromartyrs Basil Yagodin, Protopresbyter, and Alexander Buravtsev, priests
• New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechiev of Moscow
• New-Martyr Archpriest Paul Levashov of Gomel.

  Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem
• Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky
• Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos
• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".

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