Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky, Missionary to America (1937)Hieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith · d. 1937
- Holy Great Martyr Barbara (290)Great Martyr · d. 290
- Our Righteous Father John of Damascus (760)Righteous · d. 760
- Saint Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod (1505)Hierarch · d. 1505
- New Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of the Phanar in GreeceHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
- Juliana the Martyr of HeliopolisMartyr
Appointed readings
- Hebrews 13:7–16
- Luke 12:32–40
- Galatians 3:23–4:5
- Mark 5:24–34
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 4 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 17 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.