January 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 17

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 29 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 3.

Saints

• Martyrs Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Melapsippus, Cappadocian triplets, and their grandmother Leonilla, and with them Neon, Turbo, and Jonilla (Jovilla), in Cappadocia (c. 161-180)
• Martyr Danax the Reader of Avlona, Illyria (Albania), in Macedonia (2nd century) <small>(see also: January 15)</small>

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Priscilla, of the Roman Glabrio family, who hosted Saint Peter c. AD 42 (1st century)
• Pope Marcellus I, Pope of Rome from 308 to 309, suffered for confessing the faith (309) <small>(see also: June 7 in the East)</small>
• Venerable Honoratus, Archbishop of Arles and Founder of Lerins Monastery (429)
• Saint James, first Bishop of Tarentaise (429)
• Saint Valerius, Bishop of Sorrento (c. 453)
• Saint Liberata, sister of Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, Italy and Saint Honorata of Pavia (5th century)
• Saint Honoratus of Fondi, founder of the monastery of Fondi in Italy (6th century)
• Saint Triverius (Trevor), hermit (550)
• Saint Tozzo (Tazzo, Thosso), Bishop of Augsburg (661)
• Saint Fulgentius, Bishop of Cartagena and Ecija (Astigi), Hispania (633)
• Martyr Sigeberht of East Anglia, King of the East Angles (635) <small>(see also: January 25)</small>
• Saint Fursey, Irish missionary monk of Burgh Castle (East Anglia), Lagny, and Peronne (Gaul) (650)
• Saint Titian of Oderzo, for thirty years a Bishop near Venice in Italy (650)
• Saint Ferréol (Ferreolus, Fergéol), Bishop of Grenoble (c. 670)
• Saint Dunchaid O'Braoin (Dúnchad ua Bráein), Abbot of Clonmacnoise (988)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Romilus the Sinaite, the Hesychast of Mount Athos and Ravanica Monastery, Serbia, disciple of Saint Gregory of Sinai, and with him Saints Nestor, Martinius, Daniel, Sisoes, Zosimas, and Gregory (1375)
• Blessed Maximus the Fool for Christ and Wonderworker of Totma, Vologda Oblast (1650)
• Saint Gerasimos II Palladas, Patriarch of Alexandria (1714)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Damascene of Gabrovo, Bulgaria, Hieromonk of Hilandar, Mount Athos, at Svishtovo, Bulgaria (1771)
• New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest of Mytilene (1777)
• New Hieromartyr John Pettaya, Priest (1919)

Other commemorations

• Veneration of the Precious Chains of the holy and all-glorious Apostle Peter (Liberation of Saint Peter)
• Repose of Elder Theodore of Irkutsk (1923)
• Repose of Priest Demetrius Gagastathis of Platanos, Trikala (1975)

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Notes

References

Sources

• January 16/January 29. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• January 29 / January 16. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 16. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 8.
• January 16. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 16–17.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 16 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 16 ΙανουαρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 29 января (16 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 16 января (ст.ст.) 29 января 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).