December 31 (old calendar) / January 13 (new) 33rd Sunday after Pentecost. Tone 8 Leavetaking of the Nativity. Sunday after the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, holy ancestors. Ven. Melania the Younger of Rome (439). Ven. Chiriacos (Kyriakis) of Bisericani (Romanian—160). Ven. Chiriacos (Kyriakis) of Tazlau (Romanian—1660). SAINT MELANIA Saint Melania was born in Rome into a devout Christian family. Her parents, people of property and wealth,