December 24 (old calendar) / January 6 (new)

December 24 (old calendar) / January 6 (new) Strict Fast Sunday before the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, Holy Father The Eve of the Nativity of Christ. Nun-martyr Eugenia of Rome, and with her Martyrs Philip her father, Protus, Hyacinth (Jacinth), Basilla, and Claudia (262). SAINT EUGENIA The Holy Martyr Eugenia, was a Roman by birth. She lived at Alexandria, where her father Philip was sent by the emperor