December 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 20 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 22
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 8.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ
Saints
Martyr Themistocles of Myra in Lycia Virgin Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia, and with her 500 men by the sword, and 130 women by beheading- Venerable Macarius the Faster, Abbot of Khakhuli Monastery
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Honoratus of Toulouse, born in Spain, he succeeded Saint Saturninus as Bishop of Toulouse in France
- Saint Severinus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany
- Martyrs John and Festus, martyrs honoured in Tuscany in Italy
- Saint Baudacarius, A monk at Bobbio Abbey in the north of Italy
- Saint Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims
- Saint Beornwald of Bampton, a righteous priest in Bampton in Oxfordshire in England
- Saint John Vincent, born in Ravenna, he became a monk at St. Michael in Chiusa, then a hermit on Monte Caprario, finally he became Bishop nearby
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Saint Peter of Moscow, Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow, Wonderworker of All Russia- Saint Juliana, Princess of Vyazma
- Blessed Procopius of Vyatka, Fool-for-Christ
- Righteous-Virgin Yulianiya Solvychegodska
- Saint Anton II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia
- Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of Kiev
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Michael Kiselev, Priest, at Perm
- New Hieromartyr Sergius, Deacon
- New Hieromartyr Nicetas Pribytkov, Bishop of Belev
- New Hieromartyr Leontius, Deacon
Other commemorations
- Finding of the relics of New Monk-Martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri
- Repose of Blessed Peter "the Nose" of Kama
- Repose of Schemamonk Michael of Harbin
- Repose of Mother Stavritsa, missionary in Kenya