December 15

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December 15 is the 349th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

There are 16 days remaining until the end of the year.


Days until coming elections:
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html


U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/

Belisarius may be this bearded figure on the right of Emperor Justinian I in the mosaic in the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, which celebrates the reconquest of Italy by the Byzantine army. Compare Lillington-Martin (2009) page 16.

533 Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tricamarum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisarius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelimer

687 Pope Sergius I is elected.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sergius_I

1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut Castle (in present-day Iran) as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulagu_Khan

1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft. As early as 1390, the Dutch set out to refine the tower mill design, which had appeared somewhat earlier along the Mediterranean Sea. The Dutch essentially affixed the standard post mill to the top of a multi-story tower, with separate floors devoted to grinding grain, removing chaff, storing grain, and (on the bottom) living quarters for the windsmith and his family. Both the post mill and the later tower mill design had to be oriented into the wind manually, by pushing a large lever at the back of the mill. Optimizing windmill energy and power output and protecting the mill from damage by furling the rotor sails during storms were among the windsmith's primary jobs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill

Naval Battle of Santa Lucia, December 15, 1778. Left the 12 ships of d'Estaing. Right, the 7 vessels of Barrington. The French fleet was defeated.

1778 American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_St._Lucia


1791 The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

Federal outer line on December 16, 1864

1864 American Civil War: Battle of Nashville - Union forces under George Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John Hood.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nashville

1890 Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull

Tolstoy photographed at his Yasnaya Polyana estate in May 1908 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky. The only known color photograph of the writer.

1900 Count Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) wrote to the tsar asking him to end religious persecution in Russia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

Pushkin House as seen across the Malaya Neva and Exchange Bridge. The pediment is crowned with the bronze statues of Neptune, Mercury, and Ceres.

1905 The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkin_House


1907 Concordia College at Portland, Oregon, was dedicated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordia_University,_Portland

Knez Mihailova street at the end of the 19th century

1914 World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgrade#World_War_I_and_the_Interbellum


1914 A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll

1917 World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers. The Central Powers (German: Mittelmächte; Hungarian: Központi hatalmak; Turkish: İttifak Devletleri or Bağlaşma Devletleri; Bulgarian: Централни сили, Tsentralni sili) were one of the two warring factions in World War I (1914–18), composed of Germany, the Austria–Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance[1] (German: Vierbund)).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Powers


1933 The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Theatrical pre-release poster

1939 Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)

Memorial entrance sign

1941 The Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drobytsky_Yar


1942 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Austen,_the_Galloping_Horse,_and_the_Sea_Horse

U.S. Army soldiers land at Arawe

1943 World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain Campaign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arawe

Fushimi Inari—Main Gate, one of the oldest shrines in Japan

1945 Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto#State_Shinto

1946 U.S.-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Mahabad

John F. Kennedy

1960 Richard Pavlik is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Paul_Pavlick

Red Cross passport under the name of "Ricardo Klement" that Eichmann used to enter Argentina in 1950

1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann#Trial

Gemini VI-A (foreground) and Gemini VII make the first rendezvous in orbit between two manned spacecraft

1965 Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_6A

The Silver Bridge upon completion in 1928

1967 The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River collapses, killing 46 people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Bridge


1970 Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_7

1970 The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes in the Korea Strait, killing over 300 people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disasters_by_death_toll


1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Getty_III


1973 The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychiatric_Association


1976 Western Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa

1976 The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Argo_Merchant

1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter


1981 Iraqi Shi'a Islamist group al-Dawa carried out a suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_attack

1994 Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palau

Tajikistan Airlines Tu-154, similar to the aircraft that crashed

1997 Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan_Airlines_Flight_3183


1997 The Treaty of Bangkok is signed allowing the transformation of Southeast Asia into a nuclear weapon-free zone.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_Nuclear-Weapon-Free_Zone_Treaty

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, viewed from the roof of a building in Pripyat, Ukraine

2000 The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Leaning Tower of Pisa

2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaning_Tower_of_Pisa


2005 Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia

2005 Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor


2006 First flight of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II

2009 Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner


2010 A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Christmas_Island_boat_disaster



Births

37 Nero, Roman emperor (d. 68)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero


1754 Paul Henkel, home missionary of the eighteenth-century Lutheran Church, near Salisbury, North Carolina (d. 27 Nov 1825).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Henkel

1793 Henry Charles Carey Philadelphia PA, economist, a leading 19th-century economist of the American School of capitalism. He is now best known for the book The Harmony of Interests: Agricultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial (1851), which denigrates the "British System" of laissez faire free trade capitalism in comparison to the American System of developmental capitalism, which uses tariff protection and government intervention to encourage production and national self-sufficiency.He rose to become a chief economic adviser to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Charles_Carey



O Little Town of Bethlehem - Christmas Carol with Lyrics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpHY3jU27dc
1830 Lewis Henry Redner, American Episcopal organist and composer, best known as the composer of the popular Christmas carol "St. Louis", better known as "O Little Town of Bethlehem", in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 29 Aug 1908).
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/r/e/d/redner_lh.htm

1843 A. B. (Albert Benjamin) Simpson, Anglican clergyman and founder of the Christian Alliance and the International Missionary Alliance, on Prince Edward Island, Canada (d. 29 Oct 1919).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Benjamin_Simpson

1852 Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie,[1] for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1908)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Becquerel

1859 L. L. Zamenhof, Polish doctor and linguist, creator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof

1860 Abner Powell, American Major league baseball player who was a member of the Washington Nationals of the Union Association in 1884. He later played for the Baltimore Orioles and the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1886. He also managed and owned several teams, and he is best known for his innovations as a manager. (d. 1953)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Powell

Charles Duryea (left) with J.Frank Duryea

1861 Charles Duryea, American engineer, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Duryea

The Arthur D. Little Inc. building at 30 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near MIT, which opened in 1917

1863 Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer, patented rayon (d. 1935)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Dehon_Little

1888 Maxwell Anderson, American journalist and playwright (d. 1959)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson

1892 J. Paul Getty, American-British businessman and art collector, founded Getty Oil and the J. Paul Getty Trust (d. 1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty


1896 Ann Nolan Clark, American author (d. 1995)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Nolan_Clark

1896 Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Smith

1902 Robert F. Bradford, American politician, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Bradford


1910 John Hammond, American record producer and civil rights activist (d. 1987)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hammond_(producer)

1911 Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist turned comic strip writer, creator of the soap opera-style strips Rex Morgan, M.D., Judge Parker and Apartment 3-G. Separating his comics career from his medical practice, he wrote under pseudonyms, Dal Curtis for Rex Morgan, M.D. and Paul Nichols for Judge Parker.(d. 1991)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_P._Dallis

Stan Kenton - Artistry in Rhythm (9)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3EkI3ISz28
1911 Stan Kenton,pianist, composer, and arranger who led an innovative, influential, and often controversial American jazz orchestra. In later years he was active as an educator. (d. 1979)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Kenton#Compositions

1913 Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her "exact generation". (d. 1980)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Rukeyser



Organ Celebrities 22. BUDDY COLE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w2Lu5gfUIE
1916 Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Cole_(musician)


1918 Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)

1919 Max Yasgur, American farmer, owner of the Woodstock festival site (d. 1973)

1920 Kurt Schaffenberger, American illustrator (d. 2002)

1921 Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965)

1923 Freeman Dyson, English-American physicist and mathematician

1925 Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006)

1926 Ben Overton, American judge (d. 2012)

1928 Ernest Ashworth, American singer (d. 2009)




1928 Jerry Wallace, American singer (d. 2008)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Wallace


1929 Barry Harris, American pianist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYRlOjJrjG0
Jesse Belvin - Guess Who (1959)
1932 Jesse Belvin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1960)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Belvin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qqE_WmagjY
Carol Burnett Show outtakes - Tim Conway's Elephant Story
1933 Tim Conway, American comedian and actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Conway


1938 Billy Shaw, American football player

1939 Alan Armstrong, American children's author

Birdsong at right with Mary Wilson and Diana Ross, 1967.

1939 Cindy Birdsong, American singer-songwriter (The Supremes and Labelle)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Birdsong


1940 Nick Buoniconti, American football player

1942 Kathleen Blanco, American politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana

1944 Jim Leyland, American baseball player and manager
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Leyland

1946 Carmine Appice, American drummer and songwriter (Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert & Appice, and Cactus)

1946 Art Howe, American baseball player and manager

1947 Rodney Bingenheimer, American disc jockey

1948 Melanie Chartoff, American actress

1949 Don Johnson, American actor and singer

1952 Marta DuBois, Panamanian-American actress

1952 Rudi Protrudi, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Fuzztones)

1952 Julie Taymor, American director

1953 John R. Allen, American general

1953 J. M. DeMatteis, American author

1953 Robert Charles Wilson, American-Canadian science fiction author

1954 Mark Warner, American politician, 69th Governor of Virginia

1957 Mike McAlary, American journalist (d. 1998)

1957 Laura Molina, American singer, guitarist, actress, and painter

1957 Tim Reynolds, German-American singer-songwriter and musician (Dave Matthews Band, TR3, and Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds)

1963 Ellie Cornell, American actress

1963 Andrew Luster, American rapist

1963 Helen Slater, American actress and singer

1963 David Wingate, American basketball player

1963 Norman J. Grossfeld, American screenwriter and producer

1966 Molly Price, American actress

1967 Elix Skipper, American wrestler

1967 Mo Vaughn, American baseball player

1968 Garrett Wang, American actor

1970 Lawrence Funderburke, American basketball player

1971 Clint Lowery, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sevendust, Dark New Day, and Call Me No One)

1972 Rodney Harrison, American football player

1973 Surya Bonaly, French-American figure skater

1976 Aaron Miles, American baseball player

1976 Todd Tichenor, American baseball umpire

1977 Geoff Stults, American actor

1978 Ned Brower, American drummer and actor (Rooney)

1978 Jerome McDougle, American football player

1979 Adam Brody, American actor

1979 Alex Solowitz, American actor, singer, and dancer (2Ge+Her)

1981 Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)

1981 Creighton Lovelace, American minister

1982 George O. Gore II, American actor

1983 Ronnie Radke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Falling in Reverse and Escape the Fate)

1994 Emma Lockhart, American actress

1998 Chandler Canterbury, American actor




Deaths



1878 Alfred Bird, English chemist and manufacturer, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Bird

1890 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. (b. 1831)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull


1890 Crow Foot (b 1873) the son of Sitting Bull of the Lakota. His mother was either Seen by Her Nation or Four Robes. He had sisters named Standing Holy and Lodge; he also had brothers named Henry, Little Soldier, Red Scout, and Theodore.
In 1881 he participated alongside his father in the surrender at Fort Buford. Crow Foot was killed along with his father on December 15, 1890, supposedly by a group of Indian agents.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Foot

1930 Gerhard Friedrich Bente at Redwood City, California, Second generation Missouri Synod theologian and historian. (b. 22 Jan 1858).
cyclopedia.lcms.org/display.asp?t1=B&word=BENTE.GERHARDFRIEDRICH

1934 Maggie Lena Walker ( bJuly 15, 1864) African-American teacher and businesswoman. Walker was the first female bank president of any race to charter a bank in the United States.[1] As a leader, she achieved successes with the vision to make tangible improvements in the way of life for African Americans and women. Disabled by paralysis and limited to a wheelchair later in life, Walker also became an example for people with disabilities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_L._Walker




1943 Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Waller




1944 Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Miller


1953 Robert Stangland, American jumper (b. 1881)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stangland

1958 Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli

1966 Walt Disney, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor, co-founded the Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney

1968 Jess Willard, American boxer (b. 1881)

1974 Anatole Litvak, Russian-American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1902)

1977 Wilfred Kitching, English evangelist, 7th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1893)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Kitching

1978 Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1903)

1984 Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)

1989 Arnold Moss, American actor (b. 1910)

1993 William Dale Phillips, American chemist (b. 1925)

2001 Russ Haas, American wrestler (b. 1974)




2001 Rufus Thomas, American singer and comedian (b. 1917)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Thomas


2003 George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)

2004 Pauline LaFon Gore, American lawyer (b. 1912)

2005 William Proxmire, American politician, Senator from Wisconsin (b. 1915)

2005 Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)

2006 Mary Stolz, American children's author (b. 1920)

2007 John Berg, American actor (b. 1949)

2007 Julia Carson, American politician (b. 1938)

2009 Oral Roberts, American televangelist, founded Oral Roberts University, in Newport Beach, California (b. 24 Jan 1918, Ada, Oklahoma). American Methodist-Pentecostal televangelist and a Christian charismatic. He founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University. As one of the most well-known and controversial American religious leaders of the 20th century, Roberts preached a form of Christianity he called seed-faith. His ministries reached millions of followers worldwide spanning a period of over six decades. His healing ministry and bringing American Pentecostalism into the mainstream had the most impact,[6] but he also pioneered TV evangelism and laid the foundations of the prosperity gospel and abundant life teachings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Roberts


2010 Blake Edwards, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1922)

2010 Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918)

2010 Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and social theorist (b. 1940)

Clark Terry with Brookmeyer (right) at the Clearwater Jazz Festival, Florida, 1980s

Bob Brookmeyer - Misty
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-_nqyZiMc
2011 Bob Brookmeyer, American trombone player and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (b. 1929)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brookmeyer

2011 Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist and essayist (b. 1949)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens


2011 Frank X. McDermott, American politician (b. 1924)

2013 Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (b. 1921)

2013 Joan Fontaine, Japanese-American actress and singer (b. 1917)

2013 Gennaro Langella, American mob boss (b. 1938)

2013 Dyron Nix, American basketball player (b. 1967)


2014 Booth Colman, American actor (b. 1923)


Holidays and observances


Christian feast day:

Drostan (Aberdeen Breviary)

Maria Crocifissa di Rosa

Mesmin

Valerian of Abbenza

Virginia Centurione Bracelli

John Horden and Robert McDonald (Episcopal Church (USA))



December 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, and Martyrs Anthia (his mother), Coremonus the Eparch (Corybus), and two executioners who suffered with them (117-138)

Martyr Eleutherius of Byzantium (beginning of the 4th century)

Martyr Susanna the Deaconess, of Palestine (4th century)

Venerable Pardus the Hermit, of Palestine (6th century)

Saint Stephen the Confessor, Archbishop of Surozh in the Crimea (c. 790)

Monk-martyr Bacchus of St. Sabbas Monastery (Bacchus the New), by beheading (late 8th century)

Venerable Paul of Mt. Latros (Paul the New Ascetic) (896 or 956)


Pre-Schism Western Saints

Saint Valerian of Abbenza, Bishop of Abbenza in North Africa (457)

Martyrs Faustinus, Lucius, Candidus, Caelian, Mark, Januarius and Fortunatus, in North Africa

Saint Mesmin (Maximin, Maximinus), first Abbot of Micy (Saint-Mesmin de Micy Abbey) near Orleans in France (520)

Saint Aubertus, Bishop of Cambrai-Arras (Netherlands) (668)

Saint Florentius (Flann), Abbot of Bangor Abbey in Ireland (7th century)

Saint Offa of Essex, King of Essex in England, he went to Rome and took up the monastic life (c. 709)

Saint Urbicius (Urbitius, Úrbez) (c. 805)

Saint Adalbero (Adalbero II of Upper Lorraine), a monk at the monastery of Gorze in France, became Bishop of Verdun, but was transferred to Metz (1005)


Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Saint Nectarius of Bitel (Nektarios of Bitola, Nektarij Bitolski) (1500)

Saint Tryphon of Pechenga or Kola, "Enlightener of the Lapps" (1583), and his martyred disciple Jonah (1590)


New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Verey (1929)

New Hieromartyrs Alexander Rozhdestvensky and Basil Vinogradov, Priests of Tver (1937)

New Hieromartyr Victorinus, Priest (1937)

New Hieromartyr Joseph, Metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1938)

Virgin-martyr Victorina (Diobronravova).


Other commemorations

Commemoration of the ordination of St. John Chrysostom as the Patriarch of Constantinople (15 December 397)

Synaxis of the Saints of the Crimea

Synaxis of the Saints of Kola (Kolsk)


Bill of Rights Day (United States)





en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_15
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_15_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1215.htm
www.amug.org/~jpaul/dec15.html