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February 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Jan. 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 2

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 14 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 1, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 19.

Feasts

  • Forefeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple.

    • Saints

  • Martyr Tryphon of Campsada near Apamea in Syria (250)
  • Martyr Theonas, with Two Children.
  • Martyr Karion.
  • Venerable Peter of Galatia, hermit near Antioch in Syria (c. 403)
  • Venerable Vendemanius (Bendemanius), hermit of Bithynia (512)
  • Saint Anthony the Hermit, in Georgia (6th century)
  • Great-martyr Elijah of Heliopolis, (Elias the New, of Damascus) (799)
  • Saints David (784), Symeon (843), and George (844), Confessors of Mytilene.
  • Saint Basil I the Confessor, Archbishop of Thessalonica (862)
  • Saint Basil II the Synaxaristis, Archbishop of Thessalonica (c. 904)
  • Saint Timothy the Confessor.

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas at Carthage (202-203) (see also: March 7 in the West)
  • Saint Severus of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna, attended the Council of Sardica in 344 (348)
  • Saint Paul of Trois-Châteaux, Bishop of Trois-Châteaux in the Dauphiné (c. 405)
  • Venerable Brigid of Kildare (524)
  • Saint Darlugdach of Kildare, successor of St Brigid as second Abbess of Kildare in Ireland (c. 524)
  • Saint Ursus of Aosta, born in Ireland, he preached against Arianism in the south of France and later went to Aosta in Italy (6th century)
  • Saint Seiriol, Abbot of Penmon Priory (Anglesey) (6th century)
  • Saint Sigebert III, King of Austrasia (656)
  • Saint Severus of Avranches, Abbot and Bishop of Avranches (c. 690)
  • Saint Brigid the Younger, sister of St Andrew the Scot, Abbot of St. Donatus in Fiesole in Tuscany in Italy (9th century)
  • Saint Clarus of Seligenstadt, ascetic and hermit (c. 1048)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov (1468)
  • New Martyr Anastasius of Nauplion (1655)
  • The Four Martyrs of Megara: Polyeuctos, George, Adrianos and Platon, the "Newly-Revealed" (1754, 1998)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Peter Skipetrov, Archpriest, of Petrograd (1918) (see also: January 19)
  • New Hieromartyr Nicholas Mezentsev, Priest (1938)

    • Other commemorations

  • Icon of the Mother of God "Sokolsky" (1854)

    • References

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