December 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Dec. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Dec. 17
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on December 29 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For December 16, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 3.
Saints
Prophet Haggai (Aggaeus) (500 BC)
Martyr Marinus of Rome (283)
Martyrs Promus (Probus) and Hilary, by the sword.
Saint Memnon, Archbishop of Ephesus (c. 440)
Saint Modestus II, Patriarch of Jerusalem (634)(see also December 18)
Saint Simeon, Archbishop of Antioch (834-840)
Blessed Empress Theophania of Byzantium (893), wife of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise.
Saint Nicholas Chrysoberges, Patriarch of Constantinople (995)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Valentine, Concordius, Navalis and Agricola, martyrs venerated in Ravenna in Italy. (c. 305)
Women Martyrs of North-West Africa, a great number of women martyred under Hunneric, Arian King of the Vandals (482)
Saint Dabheog (Beoc, Beanus, Mobeoc), founder of a monastery on an island in Lough Derg in Donegal in Ireland (5th century)