December 4

Feasts

Great-martyr Barbara and Martyr Juliana at Heliopolis in Syria; Hieromartyr John of Damascus; Saint John, Bishop of Polybotum; Gennadius, Archbishop of Novgorod; New Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of the Phanar; Hieromartyrs Damascene, Bishop of Glukhov and his father Priest Nicholas (Tsedrick); Martyrs Christodoula and Christodoulos; translation of the relics of Saint Nectan of Hartland (see June 17); Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitzky of Russia, missionary to America; Icon of the Mother of God of Damascus