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December 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)


Dec. 27 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 29

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 10 by Orthodox Churches on Old Calendar.

For December 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 15.

Apostle Nicanor the Deacon.

Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II honoring the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia.

Martyrs: Peter, Indes, Gorgonius by drowning; Zeno and Dorotheus by beheading; Mardonius and Hieromartyr Glycerius, by fire; Theophilus the Deacon by stoning; and Migdonius in a cesspool.

A primitive chapel dating from 6th to 11th centuries, at the cemetery of the church in the village named for Maughold.

New Hieromartyr , Bishop of Belgorod.

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