Saints of the day
Orthodox saints of December 5
The feasts and saints the Orthodox Church commemorates on December 5 — on the Old Calendar, civil December 18.
Commemorated on December 5
- St. Sabbas the Sanctified
St. Sabbas the Sanctified
Founder of the Great Lavra in the Judean desert (†532), whose Typikon ordered the Church's services for a thousand years.
When it falls
- New Calendar: December 5 every year
- Old Calendar: civil December 18
Commemorations follow the Menaion of the Orthodox Church. New Calendar parishes keep them on the date shown; Old Calendar parishes keep them 13 days later on the civil calendar. Local churches add their own saints — your parish calendar comes first.