22 December
12 commemorations of 22 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 4 January of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Anastasia the Deliverer from Potions
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Nativity of Christorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Great Martyr Anastasia of Rome and Sirmium, the Deliverer from Bonds and Poisons
- her teacher Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them:
- the Martyrs Theodota, Evodos (Evodus, Evodias, Evodius), Eutychianus, Zoilos, and others, who suffered under Diocletian (304)
- Hieromartyr Zoilus, Priest, under Diocletian (304)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ζωΐλος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Saint Boris Talantov of Kostroma, Soviet teacher, participant in the dissident movement in the USSR, church publicist and political prisoner (1970–1971)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyrs Dimitry (Demetrius) Kiranov, Archpriest of Yaroslavl, and Theodore Poroikov, Archpriest of Yalta (1937–1938)holytrinityorthodox.com · mospat.ru · 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.
- Martyrs Demetrius, Honoratus and Florus, in Ostia in Italyorthodoxengland.org.uk
- Thirty Holy Martyrs of Rome (c. 303)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyr Flavian, former Prefect of Rome (362)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Hunger (Hungerus Frisus), Bishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands from 856; during the Norman invasion he fled to Prüm in Germany where he died (866)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Amaswinthus of Málaga, Monk and Abbot for forty-two years at a monastery in Silva de Málaga in Spain (982)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 Thyranoixia (consecration) of the "Great Church of Christ", the Hagia SophiaΜνήμη Θυρανοιξίων τῆς μεγάλης Ἐκκλησίας τοῦ Χριστοῦsynaxarion.gr
- Repose of Monk Dositheus, hermit of the Roslavl Forests and Optina Monastery (1828)pravoslavie.ru
The list is December 22 (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.