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January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Jan. 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 1

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 13 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 31st, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 18.

Saints

  • Martyr Tryphaena of Cyzicus (1st century)
  • Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, and Papias, at Corinth (251 or 258)
  • Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cyrus and John, and Martyrs Athanasia and her daughters Theoctista, Theodota, and Eudoxia, at Canopus in Egypt (311)
  • Martyrs Saturninus, Thyrsus and Victor, at Alexandria.
  • Martyrs Tharsicius, Zoticus, Cyriacus, and their companions, at Alexandaria.
  • Saint Julius of Aegina (Julius of Novara), missionary priest to northern Italy (401)
  • Saint Athanasius, Bishop of Methone (ca. 880)

    • Pre-Schism Western Saints

  • Saint Geminian of Modena, Deacon and later successor of the Bishop of Modena (348)
  • Saint Marcella of Rome (410)
  • Saint Madoes (Madianus), a saint who has left his name to a place in the Carse of Gowrie in Scotland.
  • Saint Áedan (Maedoc), first Bishop of Ferns in Co. Wexford in Ireland, where he also founded and became abbot of a monastery (626)
  • Saint Adamnan, born in Ireland, he became a monk at Coldingham, now in Scotland (681)
  • Saint Wilgils, father of St Willibrord, born in Northumbria in England, he settled on the banks of the River Humber and lived as a hermit (ca. 700)
  • Saint Bobinus, monk at Moutier-la-Celle. Later he became Bishop of Troyes (ca. 766)
  • Saint Ulphia (Wulfia, Olfe, Wulfe), hermitess near Amiens in France (8th century)
  • Saint Eusebius, monk at St Gall in Switzerland and later lived as a hermit on Mt St Victor in the Vorarlberg (884)
  • Saint John Angelus, born in Venice in Italy, he became a monk at Pomposa (ca. 1050)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

  • Venerable Nikita, recluse of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod (1108)
  • Venerable Pachomius, abbot of Keno Lake Monastery (1525) (see also May 15)
  • New Monk-martyr Elias (Ardunis) of Mt. Athos and Kalamata (1686)
  • Saint Arsenius the New, of Paros (1877)

    • Other Commemorations

  • Synaxis of the Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Koroniotissa or Dakryrroousis, at Lixouri, Cephalonia (1867)
  • Repose of Eugene Poselyanin (Pogozhev), spiritual writer (1931)
  • Repose of Elder Codratus (Condratus) of Karakalou monastery, Mt. Athos (1940)
  • Repose of Hieroschemamonk Stephen (Ignatenko) of Kislovodsk (1973)

    • References

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