13 December
34 commemorations of 13 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 26 December of the civil calendar.
In the map: Ss. Neophytos, Ignatios, Prokopios and Neilos of Machairas
Saints
- Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes, at Sebaste, also known as the Holy Five Martyrs of Sebaste (284-305)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Εὐστράτιος, Αὐξέντιος, Εὐγένιος, Μαρδάριος καὶ Ὀρέστηςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · orthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Ares, Monk in the Egyptian desertὉ Ὅσιος Ἄρηςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Auberius, Bishop
- Venerable Arsenius the Ascetic of Mt. Latros ()Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρσένιος ὁ Ἀσκητὴς ποὺ ἀσκήτευσε στὸ Λάτριο ὄροςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Arcadius of Vyazma, Monk of Novotorsk (Novotorzhok), disciple of Saint Ephrem (1077)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saints Neophytos, Ignatios, Prokopios, and Neilos, founders of Machairas Monastery, Cyprus (1145, 1172)Οἱ Ἅγιοι Νεόφυτος, Ἰγνάτιος, Προκόπιος καὶ Νεῖλος κτίτορες τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Μαχαιρᾶsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Mardarius the Recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th century)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Dositheus (Dosifey, Dosoftei), Metropolitan of Moldavia, Romania (1693)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Nicodemus (Nikodemos) of Romaniaholytrinityorthodox.com · oca.org
- Venerable Herman, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Innocent of Kherson (1857)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Gabriel (Gavrilo) I Rajić, Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch (1659)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ ὁ Ἱερομάρτυρας Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Πεκίου Σερβίαςoca.org · synaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Alexander Yuzefovich, Priest, and Martyr John Menkov (1920)holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.ru
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Lozina-Lozinsky, Protopresbyter of Saint Petersburg (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Pospelov and Jacob Gusev, Priests (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Amasiysky, Priest of Alma-Ata (1938)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyrs Emilian Kireyev and Basil Pokrov, Priests (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.
- Martyr Antiochus of Sulcis, under the Emperor Hadrian (c. 110)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Virgin Martyr Lucia (Lucy) of Syracuse (304)Ἡ Ἁγία Λουκία ἡ Παρθενομάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Columba of Terryglass and Holy Island on Lough Derg, Ireland (549)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Judoc (Judocus, Judganoc, Josse) of Ponthieu, Priest, brother of King Judicäel of Brittany, became a hermit in Villiers-Saint-Josse (c. 668)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Aubert, Bishop of Cambrai-Arras in France, founded monasteries including Saint Vaast in Arras (669)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Odilia (Otilia, Othilia) of Alsace, Gaul (c. 720)holytrinityorthodox.com · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet, a disciple of Saint Mildred, whom she probably succeeded as Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet in 716 (751)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria and a great monastic benefactor, became a monk at Jumièges Abbey, reposed at Lorsch Abbey (c. 794)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saints Einhildis and Roswinda, nuns at Hohenburg Abbey in Alsace in France with Saint Ottilia (8th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Wilfrid (Wiffred), a monk and Abbot of the Monastery of St Victor in Marseilles, France (1021)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.
- Sunday of the Holy Forefathers of Jesus Christ (December 11–17)
- Commemoration of the miracle by the Holy Five Martyrs
- Repose of Schemamonk Panteleimon "the Resurrected" of Glinsk Hermitage (1895)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Blessed Maximus of Ustiug (1906)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Bishop Theodore, Wonderworker of Trolov Convent in Kiev (1924)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Hieromonk Joel of Valaam (1937)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Archimandrite Gerasim Iscu of Tismana Monastery, Romania (1951)pravoslavie.ru
The list is December 13 (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.