Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ. Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (ca. 34). St. Theodore Graptus (“the Branded”), of Palestine and Bithynia, confessor (840). St. Theodore, patriarch of Constantinople (686). Uncovering of the relics of St. Therapont , abbot, of Belozersk and Mozhaisk (1514). St. Boniface, founder of the St. Panteleimon Monastery (Kiev) (1871). St. Barlaam, metropolitan of Tobolsk and all Siberia (1802). New Hieromartyrs Tikhon (Nikanorov), archbishop of Voronezh, and with him 160 martyred priests (1919). St. Maximus, bishop of Alexandria (282). St. Luke, monk, of Tryglia. Martyrs Maurice and his son Photinus, with 70 soldiers, of Apamea (286-305). Repose of Nicholas Ilminsky, missionary to the Tatars (1891), Archimandrite Agathangelus of Svir and Valaam (1909), Helen Ivanovna Motovilova (1910), Abbot Athanasius of Grigoriou, Mt. Athos (1953), and Archimandrite Seraphim (Rozenberg) of Pskov Caves Monastery (1993).