December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 22 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 26.

Saint Anne with the Virgin Mary. (Angelos Akotanos, 15th century).

The Holy and Righteous Ancestors of God Joachim and Anna.

Stained glass of St. Anne and the child St. Mary. (St. John the Baptist, Vincennes, Indiana.).

Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of Prophet Samuel. (Paris Psalter, 10th century).

Bottom: When Samuel was weaned, Hannah and Elkanah brought him to the temple. (William de Brailes, c. 1250).

St. Sophronius, Archbishop of Cyprus (Menologion of Basil II, 10th century).

The Beheading of St. Valerie of Limoges. (Fresco of the first bay north, Cheylat chapel, Saint-Geniès, Dordogne, France).

Close-up of altar relief: St Valerie of Limoges presents her own head to her confessor, St Martial. (Altar in St Michel des Lions, Limoges).

Saints Firmus and Rusticus of Verona with an angel, by Sebastiano Ricci. Saint Proculus of Verona is seated. (Sebastiano Ricci, 1704).

Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy". (19th century)

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