December 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
December 5 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 7
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 19 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 23.
Saints
Saint Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch (181)
Martyr Niser, under Maximian, by fire (c. 286-305)
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (c. 345)
Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Patara, uncle of Saint Nicholas of Myra (4th century)
Saint Abramius, Bishop of Cratea (Cratia, Kratia) in Bithynia (6th century)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Saint Asella (406)
Saints Auxilius, Isserninus and Secundinus, missionaries with Saint Patrick in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th century)
Martyrs Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus, in North Africa under the Arian Vandal Hunneric (c. 484)
Saint Gertrude the Elder, founder and first Abbess of Hamaye (Hamay, Hamage) near Douai, in north France (649)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus (1305)
New martyrs and confessors
New Martyr Nicholas Karamanos of Smyrna (1657) (see also March 19)
New Hieromartyr Michael Uspensky, Priest of Moscow (1937)
New Hieromartyrs/Hieroconfessors Nicholas, Priest of Tobolsk, Nicholas, Missionary of Moscow, and Nicholas, Priest of Novo-Nikolskaya (1942)
New Hieromartyr Grigol Peradze of Georgia, Archimandrite (1942) (see also: November 23 - O.S.)
Other commemorations
The miraculous apparition of Saint Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Council (325)
Divine warning of an impending earthquake in Constantinople (1090)
Name Day of Royal Passion-Bearer Tsar Nicholas II (1918)
Glorification (1996) of Saint Peter Mogila (Petro Mohyla), Metropolitan of Kiev (1646) (see also: December 31 - Feast day)
Icons
Icon of Our Lady of Tambov (1695)
Seafaring Icon of the Mother of God.
The Wonderworking icon of Saint Nicholas the Drenched of St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kiev.
Icon gallery
Notes
References
Sources
December 6/19. Orthodox Calendar (orthochristian.com).
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