The Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ St. Basil the Great, archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (379). Martyr Basil of Ancyra (ca. 362) St. Emilia , mother of Sts. Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius, Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (4th c.). St. Athanasius, wonderworker of Poltava, bishop of Mogilev and Polotsk (1801). New Monk-martyr Jeremiah (Leonov) of Valaam (1918). New Hieromartyrs Platon (Kulbush), bishop of Revel, Estonia, and archpriests Michael Bleive and Nicholas Bezhanitsky (1919), and Alexander (Trapitsyn), archbishop of Samara (1938). St. Gregory, bishop of Nazianzus, father of St. Gregory the Theologian (374). St. Eugendus, abbot of Condat in the Jura Mountains (510). St. Fanchea of Killeany (Ireland) (ca. 520). St. Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspe in North Africa (533). St. Theodosius of Tryglia, abbot. St. Clarus, abbot of St. Marcellus Monastery in Vienne (Gaul) (ca. 660). New Martyr Peter of Tripolis in the Peloponnese, at Temisi in Asia Minor (1776). Repose of Sergius A. Nilus, spiritual writer (1929), Nun Faina of Starobelsk (1972), and Archimandrite Mitrophan (Manuiloff) (1986).