December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Dec. 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Dec. 22 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos
• Prophettess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 B.C.)
• St. Valeria of Aquitaine (2nd century)
• Martyr Sositheus of Persia (553)
• St. Stephen the "New Light" of Constantinople (912)
• New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechev of Moscow (1941)
• Martyr Nerses of Persia

[edit] Icons

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy"

[edit] Other Commemorations

• Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophronieve Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
• Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867)