December 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 4 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 6
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 18 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 5th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 22.
Saints
- Martyr Anastasios the Fuller of Salona in Dalmatia
- Venerable Gratus, monk.
- Venerable Nonnus, monk.
- Martyr Diogenes, by stoning.
- Martyr Abercius, by the sword.
- Venerable Karion and his son Saint Zachariah of Egypt
- '''Saint Sabbas the Sanctified'''
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Bassus of Nice, Bishop of Nice, martyred under Decius, his body transfixed with two huge nails
- Martyrs Julius, Potamia, Crispin, Felix, Gratus and Companions - 12 martyrs who suffered in Thagura in Numidia in North Africa under Diocletian
- Saint Crispina, a wealthy matron in Thebeste in Numidia in North Africa, who was horribly tortured and ultimately beheaded
- Saint Dalmatius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia, martyred under Maximianus Herculius
- Martyr Pelinus, Bishop of Brindisi, martyred in Confinium in the south of Italy, under Julian the Apostate
- Monk-martyr Justinian of Ramsey Island, South Wales
- Saint Nicetius, Bishop of Trier, Gaul
- Saint Friminus, the seventh Bishop of Verdun in France
- Saint Cawrdaf, a noble in Wales, ended his life as a monk with St Illtyd
- Saint Sigiranus, abbot and confessor
- Saint Gerbold, monk at Ebriciacum in France, later founded the monastery of Livray, became Bishop of Bayeux
- Saint Basilissa, Abbess of Oehren near Trier in Germany
- Saint John Gradenigo, a monk in Cuxa Abbey in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain, reposed as a hermit near Montecassino
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Philotheus the Righteous, of Karyes, Mount Athos, Elder of St. Nectarius the Athonite
- Venerable Nectarius the Bulgarian of Bitol and Karyes, Mount Athos
- Saint Gurias, Archbishop of Kazan
New martyrs and confessors
Venerable New Martyrs of Karyes Skete on Mount Athos: Kosmas the Protos of Vatopedi and Companions, killed by the Latins- New Hieromartyr Elias Chetverukhin, Priest of Moscow
- New Hieromartyr Gennadius Petlyuk, Priest-monk of Yaroslavl-Rostov
- New Confessor Sergius Pravdolyubov, Priest of Ryazan