Template:December 8
Forefeast of the Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos; Saint Patapius of Thebes; Holy Apostles of the Seventy (see also March 30): Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and Onesiphorus; holy 362 martyrs of Africa, martyred by the Arians (see also December 7); Martyr Anthusa, at Rome; Saint Cyril, abbot of Chelmogorsk; New-Martyr Priest John (Kochurov) of Chicago; Saint Budoc, Bishop of Plourin