Template:December 31

Leavetaking of the Nativity of our Lord; Venerable Melania the Younger, nun of Rome; Venerable Cyriacus of Bisericani, Romania; Venerable Cyriacus of Tazlu, Romania; Saint Dositheus, Bishop and Confessor of Serbia; Saint Gelasius, monk of Palestine; Saint Gaius, monk; Saint Theophylact of Ochrid; ten virgin-martyrs of Nicomedia; Martyrs Busiris, Gaudentius, and Nemo; Saint Zoticus, feeder of orphans (see also December 30); Martyr Olympiodora; finding of the body of Hieromartyr Nestor (Savchuk). Other events: repose of Metropolitan Peter Moghila of Kiev