20 Декабря 1978 - Orthodox Calendar / Orthodox Menologion Online

Wednesday, December 20, 1978 (December 7, 1978 by the Julian calendar)
27^th Week after Pentecost, Tone one

Nativity (St. Philip's Fast). St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan (397). [.:] St. Nilus, monk, of Stolben Island (1554). [.:] St. Anthony, abbot of Siya Monastery (Novgorod) (1556). New Hieromartyr Sergius (1917). New Hieromartyr Antonius priest, Hieromartyr Andronic (1918). St. Ambrosius confessor, bishop of Kamenets-Podolsk (1932). New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Michael and Sergius priests, Nicephore deacon and Hieromartyr Galaction (1937). New Hieromartyr Peter priest (1941). St. John, faster of St. Sabbas' monastery. St. John, faster of the Kiev Caves (12th c.). Martyr Athenodorus of Mesopotamia (304). St. Paul the Obedient. St. Gregory the Silent of Serbia, founder of Grigoriou Monastery, Mt. Athos (1405) (Greek). "Seligersk" (Vladimirsk) Icon of the Mother of God. St. Ignatius, monk, near Blachernae (Greek). St. Bassa of Jerusalem, abbess (5th c.). St. Philothea of Turnovo (1060), whose relics are in Arges, Romania.