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10 December

30 commemorations of 10 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 23 December of the civil calendar.

In the map: Ss. Menas, Hermogenes and Eugraphus

Saints

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Righteous Jovan (John) Branković, King of Serbia (1502-1503), and his parents Righteous Stefan (Stephen) Branković the Blind, Despot of Serbia (1446, 1468... (1520)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Joasaph (Ioasaph) Gorlenko, Bishop of Belgorod (1754)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Alexander Shklaev of Perm, Protopresbyter (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Jacob Shestakov of Perm, Priest (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Eugraphus Pletnev of Perm, Priest, and his son, Mikhail Pletnev (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyrs of Ryazan: Protopresbyters - Anatolius Pravdoliubov, Alexander Tuberovsky, Eugene Kharkov, and Constantine Bazhanov (1937)
    • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Karasiov, Priest
    • New Martyrs Peter Grishin, Michael Yakunkin, Eusebius Tryakhov, Dorotheus Klimashev, Laurentius Kogtyev, Gregory Berdenev
    • New Virgin Martyrs Alexandra Ustiukhina and Tatiana Yegorova
    • New Hieromartyr Michael Kobozev, Priest
    • New Hieromartyr Sergius Sorokin, Hieromonk of Sreznevo, Ryazan (1937)
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  • New Virgin Martyr Eudocia (after 1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Hieromartyr Protopresbyter Nicholas Rozov of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1938)
  • New Hieromartyr Alexis Vvedensky, Priest (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Virgin Confessors Anna Ivashkina and Tatiana Byakirevoy (1948)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • New Virgin Confessor Thecla Makusheva (1954)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
  • Venerable New Nun-Confessor Anna Stoliarova, Schemanun of Sreznevo, Ryazan (1958)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru

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.

  • Saints Carpophorus and Abundius, a priest and his deacon who suffered under Diocletian (c. 290-300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona, the most famous virgin martyr in Spain, burnt at the stake under Diocletian (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Julia of Mérida, a martyr together with Saint Eulalia, in Mérida in Spain under Diocletian (304)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Mercurius and Companions, at Lentini in Sicily, soldiers who were beheaded under the governor Tertyllus, in the time of Emperor Licinius (c. 308)Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Miltiades, Pope of Rome from 311 to 314, who condemned Donatism and was venerated as a martyr on account of his many sufferings during the persecution...orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Deusdedit, Bishop of Brescia in Italy, played a leading part in the Councils against monothelitism (c. 700)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Gregory III, Pope of Rome, who was much troubled by iconoclasm and the raids of the Lombards (741)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Sindulf of Vienne (Sindulphus), the thirty-first Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 669)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Guitmarus, fourth Abbot of Saint-Riquier in France (765)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Hildemar (Hildemanus), a monk at Corbie who became Bishop of Beauvais in France in 821 (844)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.

  • Synaxis of the Archangel Michael at the Adda River in northern Italy, before the Battle of Coronate (689)Σύναξις Ἀρχιστράτηγου Μιχαὴλ ἐν τοῖς Ἄδδᾳ (ἢ Ἀδδᾷ)synaxarion.gr

The list is December 10 (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.

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