21 December
25 commemorations of 21 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 3 January of the civil calendar.
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Christorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Martyr Themistocles of Myra in Lycia (251)Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεμιστοκλῆς ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Virgin Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia, and with her 500 men by the sword, and 130 women by beheading (304)Ἡ Ἁγία Ἰουλιανὴ ἡ Παρθενομάρτυςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Macarius the Faster, Abbot of Khakhuli Monastery (c. 1034)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Peter of Moscow, Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow, Wonderworker of All Russia (1326)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Θαυματουργός Μητροπολίτης πάσης Ρωσίας (Ρῶσος)synaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Juliana, Princess of Vyazma (Novotorzhok) (1406)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Blessed Procopius of Vyatka, Fool-for-Christ (1627)pravoslavie.ru
- Righteous-Virgin Yulianiya Solvychegodska (17th century)drevo-info.ru · pravenc.ru
- Saint Anton II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1827)drevo-info.ru
- Saint Philaret (Theodosius in schema), Metropolitan of Kiev (1857)pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Michael Kiselev, Priest, at Perm (1918)holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.ru
- New Hieromartyr Sergius, Deacon (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Hieromartyr Nicetas Pribytkov, Bishop of Belev (Belevsk) (1937)holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Leontius, Deacon (1940)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 Honoratus of Toulouse, born in Spain, he succeeded Saint Saturninus as Bishop of Toulouse in France (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Severinus of Trier, Bishop of Trier in Germany (c. 300)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs John and Festus, martyrs honoured in Tuscany in Italyorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Baudacarius, A monk at Bobbio Abbey in the north of Italy (650)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims (882)johnsanidopoulos.com
- Saint Beornwald of Bampton (Bernwald), a righteous priest in Bampton in Oxfordshire in England (10th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint John Vincent, born in Ravenna, he became a monk at St. Michael in Chiusa, then a hermit on Monte Caprario , finally he became Bishop nearby (1012)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.
- Finding of the relics (1950) of New Monk-Martyr Ephraim of Nea Makri (1426)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Blessed Peter "the Nose" of Kama (c. 1938)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Schemamonk Michael of Harbin (1939)pravoslavie.ru
- Repose of Mother Stavritsa, missionary in Kenya (2000)pravoslavie.ru
The list is December 21 (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.