Afterfeast of the
Nativity of
Christ; the 14,000 infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem;
Saint Marcellus,
Abbot of the
Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones; Saint Thaddeus,
confessor, of the Studion; Saint Benjamin,
monk of Nitria in Egypt; Saint Athenodoros,
disciple of St. Pachomios the Great; Saint George,
Bishop of Nicomedia; Saints Mark the Grave-digger, Theophilus, and John of the
Kiev Caves; Saint Theophilus of Luga and Omutch; Saint Evroul,
Abbot of Saint-Evroul; commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezing.
Other events: repose of Elder Basiliscus of Siberia; founding of the Church of the Forty Martyrs
