December 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ

Saints

• Venerable Athenodorus the Leper, disciple of Saint Pachomius the Great
• Venerable Benjamin, Monk of Nitria in Egypt Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones , Constantinople Venerable Thaddeus the Confessor of the Studion Monastery
• Saint George, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, composer of Canons and Troparia

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France
• Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in Rome
• Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus and Honoratus, martyrs in North Africa
• Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France
• Saint Ebrulfus, Abbot, born in Bayeux, became a monk at the monastery of Deux-Jumeaux, later founding a monastery at Pays d'Ouche in Normany, and other smaller monasteries
• Saint Girald, a monk at Lagny in France, later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul; he became Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey, where he was murdered

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Mark the Grave-Digger of the Kiev Near Caves
• Venerable Theophilus the Weeper and John of the Kiev Near Caves
• Venerable Theophilus and Jacob, Wonderworkers and Abbots of Luga and Omuch, Pskov, disciples of Saint Arsenius of Konevets
• Saint Job Knyaginitsky, founder of Manyava Skete, Ukraine
• Venerable Basilisk the Hesychast of Turinsk, Siberia
• Venerable Lawrence of Chernigov

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Arcadius, Bishop of Tver
• New Hieromartyr Theodosius Belenky, Priest, at Chimkent
• New Virgin Martyrs Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia, Ephrosia, Agrippina, and Natalia

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who have died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing
• Commemoration of the Consecration of the Church of the Holy Forty Martyrs near the Bronze Tetrapylon