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December 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)


Dec 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec 5

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 21.

Northern rose window of Chartres Cathedral. The rose depicts the Glorification of the Virgin Mary, the twelve kings of Juda, and the Twelve Prophets.

Great-martyr Barbara.

Saint John the Wonderworker, Bishop of Polybotum (Menologion of Basil II, 10th century).

St. John of Damascus.

St. Gennady of Novgorod.

St. Alexander Hotovitzky, Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik yoke, Missionary of America.

Icon of Panagia Tricherousa ("Three-handed Theotokos").

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