29 December
25 commemorations of 29 December in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 11 January of the civil calendar.
In the map: St. Marcellus of the Unsleeping Ones (d. 485)
Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christorthochristian.com · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem, the first Christian martyrsΤὰ Ἅγια Νήπια (περίπου 14.000) ποὺ ἐσφάγισαν μὲ διαταγὴ τοῦ Ἡρώδηsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Athenodorus the Leper, disciple of Saint Pachomius the Great (4th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθηνόδωροςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Benjamin, Monk of Nitria in Egypt (392)Ὁ Ὅσιος Βενιαμίνsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), Constantinople (485)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μάρκελλοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Thaddeus the Confessor of the Studion Monastery (818)Ὁ Ὅσιος Θαδδαῖος ὁ Ὁμολογητήςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · mospat.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint George, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, composer of Canons and Troparia (9th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος Ἐπίσκοπος Νικομήδειας ποιητὴς ἀσματικῶν Κανόνων καὶ Τροπαρίωνsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Venerable Mark the Grave-Digger of the Kiev Near Caves (11th century)oca.org · drevo-info.ru · lavra.ua · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theophilus the Weeper and John (Ivan) of the Kiev Near Caves (11th–12th century)pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Theophilus (1412) and Jacob (James), Wonderworkers and Abbots of Luga and Omuch (Omutch), Pskov, disciples of Saint Arsenius of Konevetsoca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Job Knyaginitsky, founder of Manyava Skete, Ukraine (1621)pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Basilisk (Basiliscus) the Hesychast of Turinsk, Siberia (1824)oca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Lawrence (Laurence) of Chernigov (1950)holytrinityorthodox.com
- Venerable Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, a pioneering missionary of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Africa — in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Congo (1972)orthochristian.com · orthodoxianewsagency.gr
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Troepolsky, Priest, of Alupka, Crimea (1905)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
- New Hieromartyr Theodosius Belenky, Priest, at Chimkent (1938)drevo-info.ru · holytrinityorthodox.com
- New Virgin-Martyrs
- Natalia Sundukova, Natalia Siluyanova, Eudokia Guseva, Anna Popova, Matrona Navolokina, Barbara Derevyagina, Anna Borovskaya, Eudokia Nazina, Ephrosyne Denisova, Agrippina Kiseleva, and Natalia Vasilyeva, shot by the NKVD (1942)
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 Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France (c. 280)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in RomeRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus and Honoratus, martyrs in North AfricaRoman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France (7th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), Abbot, born in Bayeux, became a monk at the monastery of Deux-Jumeaux, later founding a monastery at Pays d'Ouche in Normany, and... (596)orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Girald (Girard, Giraud), a monk at Lagny in France, later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul; he became Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey, where he was murdered (1031)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 all Orthodox Christians who have died from hunger, thirst, the sword, and freezingoca.org · holytrinityorthodox.com · pravoslavie.ru
- Commemoration of the Consecration of the Church of the Holy Forty Martyrs near the Bronze Tetrapylon (four-way arch)Ἐγκαίνια τοῦ Ναοῦ Ἁγίων Τεσσαράκοντα πλησίον τοῦ Χαλκοῦ Τετραπύλουsynaxarion.gr
The list is December 29 (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.