December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Dec. 8 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 10

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on Dec. 22 by Old Calendarists

Saints

• Conception of the Virgin Mary
• Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 BC)
• St. Valeria of Aquitaine (2nd century)
• Martyr Sositheus of Persia (553)
• St. Stephen the "New Light" of Constantinople (912)
• New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechev of Moscow (1941)
• Martyr Nerses of Persia

Icons

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy"

Other Commemorations

• Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophronieve Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
• Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867)