December 18 Eastern Orthodox Liturgics

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December 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Dec. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 19

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 31 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For December 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 5.

Saints

Martyr Eubotius, at Cyzicus (320)

Saint Florus, Bishop of Amisus (7th century)

Martyrs Phocas and Hermilas, by the sword.

Hieromartyrs Zacchaeus, Deacon, and Alphaeus, reader, at Caesarea.(see also November 18)

Saint Sophia the Wonderworker.

Hieromartyr Modestus I, Archbishop of Jerusalem (4th century)(see also December 16)

Saint Michael the Confessor, at Constantinople (845)

Venerable Nomon.

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Martyrs Rufus and Zosimus, at Philippi in Macedonia (c. 107)

Martyr Moses (Moysetes), a martyr in North Africa who probably suffered under Decius (c. 250)

Martyrs Quintus, Simplicius and Companions, in North Africa under the Emperors Decius and Valerian (c. 255)

Martyrs Victurus, Victor, Victorinus, Adjutor, Quartus and 30 other companions, in North Africa.

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December 18

December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

218 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic.

1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.

1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.

1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.

1688 – The inhabitants of Derry shut the city gates against the Irish Army of James II.

1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over British General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.

1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

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