December 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Dec. 21 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 23

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 4 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Great Martyr Anastasia the Roman, Deliverer from Bonds, and her teacher Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them the Martyrs Theodota, Evodias, Eutychianus, and others, who suffered under Diocletian (304 AD)

Other Commemorations

• Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ