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January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Jan. 25 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Jan. 27

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 8 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 26th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 13.

Saints

  • Martyrs Ananias the priest, Peter the prison guard, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia (295)
  • The Holy Two Martys of Phrygia.
  • Venerable Ammon of Egypt (350), disciple of St. Anthony the Great.
  • Venerable Symeon "the Ancient" of Mount Sinai (ca. 390)
  • Saint Paula of Rome (Paula of Palestine), monastic foundress in Palestine (404)
  • Venerable Gabriel, Abbot of the monastery of Saint Stephanos in Jerusalem (ca. 490)
  • Venerable Xenophon and his wife Mary, and their two sons Sts. Arcadius and John, of Constantinople (6th century)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Conon, Bishop and monastic founder on the Isle of Man (648)
  • Saint Theofrid (Theofroy), a monk at Luxeuil in France who became Abbot of Corbie, and a Bishop (ca. 690)
  • Saint Athanasius, honoured as a bishop in Sorrento in the south of Italy.
  • Saint Alphonsus of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga in Spain (9th century)
  • Saint Ansurius (Aduri, Asurius, Isauri), Bishop of Orense in Galicia (925)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Clement of Mt. Sagmation (1111)
  • Saint David the Builder (David III), King of Georgia (1125)
  • Venerable Xenophon, Abbot of Robeika (Novgorod) (1262)
  • Venerable Arcadius of Vyaznikovsky (1592)

    • New Martyrs and Confessors

  • New Martyr Matushka Maria of Gatchina (1930)
  • New Hieromartyr Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan (1937)
  • New Hieromartyr Arcadius (1938)
  • Martyr John Popov (1938)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople (447-448), during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450).
  • Translation of the relics (845) of Sts. Theodore the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion (826), and his brother Joseph the Confessor (Joseph of Thessalonica), Archbishop of Thessalonica (832)
  • Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and St. Petersburg (1801)
  • Repose of Metropolitan Joseph (Naniescu) of Suceava, Romania (1902)

    • References

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