December 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 18
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 4.
Holy Prophet Daniel (600 BC) and the Three Holy Youths: Ananias, Azarias, and Misael
Monk-martyrs Patermuthius and Coprius (Copres), and Martyr Alexander the Soldier, of Egypt (361-363)
Martyr Bacchus (Iacchus, Iakchos), from Triglia, by the sword
Venerable Daniel (Stephen in schema) the Confessor of Spain and Egypt (10th century)
Saints Athanasius, Nicholas, and Anthony, disciples of Athanasius the Athonite and founders of Vatopedi monastery, Mount Athos (10th century)
Saint Maxentiolus (Mezenceul), a disciple of Saint Martin of Tours in France, he founded Our Lady of Cunault (5th century)
Saint Tydecho of Wales, brother of Saint Cadfan (6th century)
Saint Briarch, born in Ireland, became a monk in Wales with Saint Tudwal, whom he accompanied to Brittany, built a monastery in Guingamp and reposed in Bourbiac (c. 627)
Saint Judicaël, son of Hoel and king of Domnonia and Brittany, much loved by his people, spent the last twenty years of his life in the monastery of Gäel near Vannes (658)
Saint Begga of Landen, founder and Abbess of a convent in Andenne on the Meuse in Belgium (698)
Saint Sturm (Sturmius), Abbot and Apostle of Saxony, founder of Fulda Monastery, Germany (779)
Saint Eigil, the fourth abbot of Fulda (822)
Venerable Dionysios the New of Zakynthos, Archbishop of Aegina (1624)
Saint Misael, Hieromonk of Abalak (Abalatsk) Monastery, Irkutsk (1797 or 1852)
Venerable Elder Hadji-Georgis the Athonite (1886) (see also: December 30 - N.S.)