Thanks to HistoricLectionary.com for providing the words to the Martyrology that appear below.
In the year 5199 from the creation of the world, when in the beginning God created Heaven and Earth;
in the year 2957 from the flood;
in the year 2015 from the birth of Abraham;
in the year 1510 from Moses and the Exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt;
in the year 1032 from David’s being anointed king;
in the sixty fifth week of years according to the prophecy of Daniel;
in the 194th Olympiad;
in the year 752 from the building of the city of Rome;
in the 42nd year of the reign of Octavian Augustus;
the whole world being in peace;
in the sixth age of the world;
Jesus Christ, the eternal God, and Son of the eternal Father, desiring to sanctify this world by His most merciful coming,being conceived of the Holy Ghost, and nine months since His conception having passed, in Bethlehem of Juda,
is born of the Virgin Mary, being made man.
The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to the Flesh.
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