December 22 (old calendar) / January 4 (new)

December 22 (old calendar) / January 4 (new) Nativity Fast No Divine Liturgy Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. Great Martyr Anastasia, “Deliverer from Bonds”, and her teacher, Martyr Chrysogonus, and with them Martyrs Theodota, Evodias, Eutychianus, and others, who suffered under Diocletian (ca. 304). SAINT ANASTASIA The Great Martyr Anastasia the Deliverer from Potions, a Roman by birth, suffered for Christ at the time of Diocletian’s persecution of Christians.