Conception by St Anna of the Theotokos
Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Fast day.
Commemorated today
- The Conception of the Most Holy Mother of God
- St Hannah (Anna), the Prophetess, the mother of the Prophet Samuel (12th c. BC)Prophet
- St Stephen the New Light (Neolampes) of Constantinople (912)d. 912
- Narses the Martyr of PersiaMartyr
- The Consecration of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre) in the Holy City of Jerusalem
Appointed readings
- Galatians 4:22–31
- Luke 8:16–21
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on December 9 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on December 22 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.