9 December
33 commemorations of 9 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 22 December of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy TheotokosΣύλληψις Ἁγίας Ἄννηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org
Saints
- Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 BC)Ἡ Ἁγία Ἄννα ἡ Προφήτιδα Μητέρα τοῦ Προφήτη Σαμουήλsynaxarion.gr · oca.org
- Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (c. 284-305)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἐάσιος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Bassa (Vassa), Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of Saint Menas, whose Abbot was the... (5th century)Ἡ Ἁγία Βάσσαsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553)Ὁ Ἅγιος Σωσίθεος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th century)oca.org
- Martyr Narses (Nerses) of Persia, by the swordὉ Ἅγιος Ναρσὴς ὁ Μάρτυρας ὁ Πέρσηςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr IsaacὉ Ἅγιος Ἰσαὰκ ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Stephen "the New Light" of Constantinople (912)Ὁ Ὅσιος Στέφανος ὁ νεολαμπὴς ὁ ἐν τῷ Ἁγίῳ Ἀντίπα κειμένουsynaxarion.gr · oca.org
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Anthimus of Sofia, Hieromonk and Elder of Mount Athos, Fool for Christ (1867)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vinogradov, Priest (1919)holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.ru
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Dzhurinsky, Priest, and Virgin Martyr Ephrosia Dzhurinsky (1920)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Basil Yagodin, Protopresbyter, and Alexander Buravtsev, Priest (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Paul Levashov, Archpriest of Gomel (disappeared 1937)
- New Hieromartyr Sergius Mechev, Priest of Moscow (1941)holytrinityorthodox.com
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Saint Syrus, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy (c. 1st century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Virgin-Martyr Valeria (Valerie) of Limoges or Aquitaine, by tradition she was converted by Saint Martial of Limoges in France and beheaded (1st-3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Nectarius of Auvergne (c. 300)
- Virgin Martyr Leocadia (Locaie) of Toledo, Spain (c. 303)orthochristian.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (c. 320)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North AfricaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Augard, hermit at Saint-Augard-en-Paule in Brittany (6th century)
- Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and MartyrRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Balda, third Abbess of Jouarre in France (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Budoc (Budeaux), born in Brittany, became Abbot of Youghal in Ireland, then Bishop of Dol in Brittany (7th century?)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury (896)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Egbert, Bishop of Trier in Germany (993)rus-kirche-baden.de
- Saint Wulfric (also known as Wolfeius), a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England (c. 1000)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint , monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France (1045)orthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem (335)pravoslavie.ru
- Unexpected Joy Icon of the Mother of Godoca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of Saint Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)pravoslavie.ru
The list is December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.