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December 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar

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All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 23 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 10th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 27.

Martyrs Menas the Melodius (Most Eloquent), Hermogenes, and Eugraphus, of Alexandria (c. 313)

Martyr Gemellus of Paphlagonia, cruelly tortured and crucified at Ancyra (361)

Hieromartyr Theoteknos (Theotecnus), by the sword

Martyr Eugenios, beaten to death

Saint Athanasios, Bishop of Methoni, Messenia (c. 880)

Venerable Thomas Dephourkinos the Righteous of Mount Kyminas in Bithynia (10th century)

Saints Carpophorus and Abundius, a priest and his deacon who suffered under Diocletian (c. 290-300)

Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona, the most famous virgin martyr in Spain, burnt at the stake under Diocletian (304)

Saint Julia of Mérida, a martyr together with Saint Eulalia, in Mérida in Spain under Diocletian (304)

Saint Mercurius and Companions, at Lentini in Sicily, soldiers who were beheaded under the governor Tertyllus, in the time of Emperor Licinius (c. 308)

Saint Miltiades, Pope of Rome from 311 to 314, who condemned Donatism and was venerated as a martyr on account of his many sufferings during the persecution of Maximian (314)

Saint Deusdedit, Bishop of Brescia in Italy, played a leading part in the Councils against monothelitism (c. 700)

Saint Gregory III, Pope of Rome, who was much troubled by iconoclasm and the raids of the Lombards (741)

Saint Sindulf of Vienne (Sindulphus), the thirty-first Bishop of Vienne in France (c. 669)

Saint Guitmarus, fourth Abbot of Saint-Riquier in France (765)

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