December 8 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 10
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 26.
The Conception by St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of the Prophet Samuel (1100 BC)
Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (c. 284-305)
Saint Bassa (Vassa), Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of Saint Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos (5th century) (see also December 7 - Russian)
Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553)
Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th century) (see also: December 8)
Martyr Narses (Nerses) of Persia, by the sword
Saint Stephen "the New Light" of Constantinople (912)
Saint Syrus, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy (c. 1st century)
Virgin-Martyr Valeria (Valerie) of Limoges or Aquitaine, by tradition she was converted by Saint Martial of Limoges in France and beheaded (1st-3rd century)
Saint Nectarius of Auvergne (c. 300)
Virgin Martyr Leocadia (Locaie) of Toledo, Spain (c. 303)
Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (c. 320)
Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa
Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586)