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December 13 2024:

The martyrdom of Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius and Orestes.
St. Lucy of Syracuse.
St. Herman of Alaska
New Hieromartyr Protopresbyter Vladimir Lozina-Lozinsky.

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( November 30 2024: Julian Calendar )

Apostle Andrew the First-Called

Holy and All-praised Apostle Andrew the First-Called (62); Saint Frumentius of Axum, Archbishop of Abyssinia, Enlightener of Ethiopia (380) Saint Alexander of Methymna, Wonderworker, first Bishop of Methymna on Lesbos and a member of the First Ecumenical Council (c. 325); Saints Peter I (5th century) and Samuel I (5th-6th centuries), Catholicoi of Georgia; Saint Vakhtang Gorgasali, King of Georgia (502); Saints Castulus and Euprepis, martyrs in Rome; Saint Constantius, a priest in Rome who opposed the Pelagians (5th century); Saint Trojanus of Saintes (Troyen), a priest in Saintes in France where he later became bishop after St Vivien (533); Saint Tudwal (Tugdual), Bishop in Wales and Brittany (c. 564); Saint Andrew (Saguna), Metropolitan of Transylvania (1873); Saint Elias, Schemamonk of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1900); New Hieromartyr John Chestnov, Priest (1937).



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