December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 10
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 26.
Feasts
The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos.Saints
Prophetess Anna, mother of the Prophet Samuel- Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded
- Saint Bassa, Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of Saint Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos
- Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword
- Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus
- Martyr Narses of Persia, by the sword
- Martyr Isaac
- Saint Stephen "the New Light" of Constantinople
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Syrus, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy
- Virgin Martyr Valeria of Limoges or Aquitaine, by tradition she was converted by Saint Martial of Limoges in France and beheaded
- Saint Nectarius of Auvergne
- Virgin Martyr Leocadia of Toledo, Spain
- Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace
- Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa
- Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne
- Saint Augard, hermit at Saint-Augard-en-Paule in Brittany
- Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr
- Saint Balda, third Abbess of Jouarre in France
- Saint Budoc, born in Brittany, became Abbot of Youghal in Ireland, then Bishop of Dol in Brittany
- Saint Ethelgiva, the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury
- Saint Egbert, Bishop of Trier in Germany
- Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England
- Saint, monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Saint Anthimus of Sofia, Hieromonk and Elder of Mount Athos, Fool for Christ
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vinogradov, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Dzhurinsky, Priest, and Virgin Martyr Ephrosia Dzhurinsky
- New Hieromartyrs Basil Yagodin, Protopresbyter, and Alexander Buravtsev, Priest
- New Hieromartyr Paul Levashov, Archpriest of Gomel
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Mechev, Priest of Moscow
Other commemorations
- Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem Unexpected Joy Icon of the Mother of God
- Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky