Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Holy Ten Martyrs of CreteMartyr
- Our Venerable Father Paul, Archbishop of Neocaesarea (4th century)Hierarch · 4th century
- Our Holy Father Nahum of Ochrid, Wonderworker and Enlightener of the Slavs (c. 900)Wonderworker · d. c. 900
- Rememberance of the Founding of the Holy and Great Church of Christ, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
- Nicholas & John the New MartyrsNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 23 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 5 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.