What do we know about the 8th of December?
On this day, December 8, in Ukraine and around the World:
International Observances and Commemorative Dates:
- Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Catholicism). One of the most important solemnities in the Catholic Church's liturgical year.
- International Artist Day. An unofficial, but widely celebrated creative holiday.
Church Dates (according to the New Calendar in Ukrainian Orthodoxy):
- Commemoration of the Venerable Patapius of Thebes.
- Commemoration of the Apostles of the Seventy: Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus and Caesar.
