December 29 (old calendar) / January 11 (new)

December 29 (old calendar) / January 11 (new) Fast Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ. Saturday after the Nativity. The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem. Ven. Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the “Unsleeping Ones” (485). Ven. Mark the Grave-digger, Theophilus, and John, of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—11th-12th c.). Ven. Theóphil of Luga and Omutch (15th c.). Ven. Thaddeus the Confessor, of the Studion (818). HOLY INNOCENTS