December 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) explained
December 12 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 14
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 26 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 13th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 30.
Saints
- Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes, at Sebaste, also known as the Five Martyrs of Cappadocia (284-305)[1] [2] [3]
- Venerable Ares, monk in the Egyptian desert.[4]
- Venerable Arsenius the Ascetic of Mt. Latros [3] [5] [6]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Martyr Antiochus of Sulcis, under the Emperor Hadrian (c. 110)[7]
- Virgin-martyr Lucy of Syracuse (Lucia) (304)[3] [8] [9]
- Saint Columba of Terryglass and Holy Island on Lough Derg, Ireland (549)[3] [10] (see also: December 12)
- Saint Judoc (Judocus, Judganoc, Josse), a priest, brother of King Judicäel of Brittany, became a hermit in Villiers-Saint-Josse (c. 668)[7]
- Saint Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai-Arras in France, founded monasteries including Saint Vaast in Arras (669)[7]
- Saint Odilia of Alsace (Otilia, Othilia) (c. 720)[7] [10]
- Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet, a disciple of St Mildred, whom she probably succeeded as Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet in 716 (751)[7]
- Saint Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria and a great monastic benefactor, became a monk at Jumièges Abbey, reposed at Lorsch Abbey (c. 794)[7]
- Saints Einhildis and Roswinda, nuns at Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace in France with St Ottilia (8th century)[7]
- Saint Wilfrid (Wiffred), a monk and Abbot of the Monastery of St Victor in Marseilles, France (1021)[7]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Arcadius of Novy Torg, Monk of Novotorzhok, disciple of St. Ephrem (1077)[3] [11]
- Saints Neophytos, Ignatius, Procopius and Neilos, founders of the Holy Monastery of Machaira, Cyprus (1145, 1172)[12]
- Saint Mardarius, Recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th century)[3] [13]
- Hieromartyr Gabriel (Gabriel I of Pec), Serbian Patriarch (1659)[3] [14]
- Saint Dositheus, Metropolitan of Moldavia (Romania) (1693)[10]
- Venerable Nicodemus of Romania.[10] [15]
- Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836).[3] [16] (see also: August 9 - Glorification)
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
- Repose of Schemamonk Panteleimon “the Resurrected,” of Glinsk Hermitage (1895)[3]
- Repose of Blessed Maximus of Ustiug (1906)[3]
- Repose of Bishop Theodore, Wonderworker of Trolov Convent in Kiev (1924)[3]
- Repose of Hieromonk Joel of Valaam (1937)[3]
- Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim Iscu, of Tismana Monastery, Romania (1951)[3]
Sources
- December 13/26. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- December 26 / December 13. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- December 13. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
- The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 93.
- December 13. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
- The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916.
Greek Sources
Russian Sources
Notes and References
- Great Synaxaristes: : Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐστράτιος, Αὐξέντιος, Εὐγένιος, Μαρδάριος καὶ Ὀρέστης. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- Martyr Eustratius at Sebaste. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- http://orthochristian.com/calendar/20171213.html December 13/26
- Great Synaxaristes: : Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἄρης. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- Great Synaxaristes: : Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Ἀσκητὴς ποὺ ἀσκήτευσε στὸ Λάτριο ὄρος. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- Venerable Arsenius of Latros. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/stddec.htm December 13
- Great Synaxaristes: : Ἡ Ἁγία Λουκία ἡ Παρθενομάρτυς. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- Virginmartyr Lucy of Syracuse. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2011&today=26&month=12&trp=0&tzo=-4 December 26 / December 13
- Venerable Arcadius of Novy Torg. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- Great Synaxaristes: : Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νεόφυτος, Ἰγνάτιος, Προκόπιος καὶ Νεῖλος κτίτορες τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Μαχαιρᾶ. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- Venerable Mardarius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- Great Synaxaristes: : Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Πεκίου Σερβίας. 13 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
- Venerable Nicodemus the Romanian. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- Repose of the Venerable Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America. OCA - Feasts and Saints.
- 13 декабря (ст.ст.) 26 декабря 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
- The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p.93.