December 28 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 30
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 11 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 29th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 16.
Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ
The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem, the first Christian martyrs
Venerable Athenodorus the Leper, disciple of Saint Pachomius the Great (4th century)
Venerable Benjamin, Monk of Nitria in Egypt (392)
Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), Constantinople (485)
Venerable Thaddeus the Confessor of the Studion Monastery (818)
Saint George, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, composer of Canons and Troparia (9th century)
Saint Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France (c. 280)
Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in Rome.
Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus and Honoratus, martyrs in North Africa.
Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France (7th century)
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 other smaller monasteries (596)
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)
Venerable Mark the Grave-Digger of the Kiev Near Caves (11th century)
Venerable Theophilus the Weeper and John (Ivan) of the Kiev Near Caves (11th–12th century)