December 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
December 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - December 21

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on January 2 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 7.

Feasts
 Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

Saints
 Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107) (see also January 29 )
 Saint Philogonius, Bishop of Antioch, Confessor (323)

Pre-Schism Western saints
 Martyrs Liberatus and Bajulus, at Rome.
 Saint Ursicinus of Cahors, Bishop of Cahors in France (ca.585)
 Saint Dominic of Brescia, successor of St Anastasius as Bishop of Brescia in Italy (ca.612)
Saint Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne, born in Ireland, he was a disciple of St Columbanus, and founded the monastery of St Ursanne (ca.625)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints
 Saint Daniel II, Archbishop of Serbia (1338)
 Saint Ignatius, Archimandrite of the Kiev Caves (1435)
 New Martyr John of the island of Thasos, at Constantinople, by beheading (1652)
 Saint Anthony (Smirnitsky), Archbishop of Voronezh (1846)
 Righteous John of Kronstadt, Wonderworker (1908) (see also October 19 )

New martyrs and confessors
 New Hieromartyr Nikolai Chernishev, Archpriest, of Udmurtia (east of Kazan), and New Martyr Barbara, his daughter (1919)

Other commemorations
 Novgorod Icon of the Theotokos, "Deliverance of the Drowning" ("Rescuer of the Drowning").

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