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January 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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January 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Jan. 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 22

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 21st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 8.

Saints

  • Martyrs Eugenios, Candidus, Valerianus, and Aquilas, at Trebizond (303)
  • Virgin-martyr Agnes of Rome (ca. 304)
  • Martyr Neophytus of Nicaea (305)
  • The Holy Four Martyrs of Tyre, by the sword.
  • Venerable Apollonios of the Thebaid, ascetic (4th century) (see also: March 31)
  • Venerable Maximus the Confessor (662)
  • Martyr Anastasius (662), disciple of St. Maximus the Confessor.
  • Saint Zosimas, Bishop of Syracuse (662)
  • Martyrs Gabriel and Zionios, and companions, under the Bulgarian ruler Omurtag (ca. 814-831)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Publius, first Bishop of Malta and later Bishop of Athens, martyred under Trajan (ca. 112, or, ca. 161-180) (see also: March 13 in the East)
  • Saint Fructuosus, Bishop of Tarragoña in Spain, and Deacons Augurius and Eulogius (259)
  • Martyr Patroclus of Troyes, under Aurelian (ca. 270-275)
  • Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia (496)
  • Saint Brigid (Briga), known as St Brigid of Kilbride, venerated around Lismore in Ireland (6th century)
  • Saint Lawdog (6th century)
  • Saint Vimin (Wynnin, Gwynnin), a Bishop in Scotland, said to have founded the monastery of Holywood (6th century)
  • Saint Meinrad of Einsiedeln, hermit, martyred by robbers (861)
  • Saint Maccallin (Macallan), Abbot of Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache Abbey and Waulsort (978)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Saint Neophytus of Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (14th century)(see also: January 20).
  • Venerable Maximus the Greek of Russia (1556)
  • Venerable Timon, monk (desert-dweller) of Nadeyev and Kostroma (1840)
  • Saint George-John (Mkheidze) of Georgia (1960)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Hieromartyr Elias Berezovsky, Priest of Alma-Ata (1938)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Synaxis of All the Martyred Saints, from Protomartyr Stephen up to the present.
  • Synaxis of the Church of Holy Peace (Saint Irene), by the Sea in Constantinople.

    • Icons

  • "Paramythia" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Vatopedi Mother of Consolation, Mother of God of Vatopedi), at Vatopedi monastery, Mt. Athos (807)
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Stabbed" (Greek: "Esphagmeni." Slavonic: "Zaklannaya"), at Vatopedi monastery (14th century)
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Xenophon Hodigitria" (1730)

    • References

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