St Nicholas the Wonderworker, Abp. of Myra in Lycia
Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- Our Father among the Saints Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra (345)Hierarch · d. 345 life on this site
- New Martyr Nicolas Karamos of Smyrna (1657)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1657
- St Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev & Vladimir (1305)Hierarch · d. 1305
Appointed readings
- Composite 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Proverbs 10:31–11:12
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:9–16
- Hebrews 13:17–21
- Luke 6:17–23
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 6 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 19 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.