January 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 10 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 12

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 24 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 11th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 29.

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Saints

• Martyr Mairus (Mairos)
• Martyrs Peter, Severius and Leucius, at Alexandria
• Venerable Theodosius, Ascetic of Rhosus and Antioch, Wonderworker (c. 412) <small>(see also: February 5 - Greek)</small>
• Venerable Theodosius the Great, the Cenobiarch (529)
• Saint Stephen of Placidian near Constantinople
• Venerable Theodorus, and Venerable Archimandrite Agapius of Apamea in Syria
• Venerable Vitalis (Vitalios) of the Monastery of Abba Seridus, Gaza (609–620)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Hyginus, Pope of Rome (142)
• Saint Leucius, venerated as the first Bishop of Brindisi, where he had come as a missionary from Alexandria (180)
• Hieromartyr Alexander of Fermo, Bishop, martyred under Decius (c. 250)
• Saints Ethenia and Fidelmia, Princesses, daughters of King Laoghaire in Ireland, veiled as nuns by Saint Patrick (433)
• Martyr Salvius, in North Africa, eulogized by Saint Augustine
• Saint Brandan, Abbot, opponent of Pelagianism (5th century)
• Saint Honorata of Pavia, Nun, sister of Saint Epiphanius of Pavia, who ransomed her after she was abducted from the monastery of Saint Vincent in Pavia (c. 500)
• Saint Anastasius of Castel Sant'Elia, Abbot (c. 570)
• Saint Boadin the Irish, hermit in Gaul
• Saints Paldo, Taso, and Tato, three brothers, Abbots of San Vincenzo on the Voltorno (8th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Romilos (Romilus) the Hermit of Veddin (1375)
• Venerable Theodosius of Mount Athos, Metropolitan of Trebizond (1392)
• Venerable Michael of Klopsk Monastery, Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker (c. 1453–1456)
• Saint Pachomius of Keno Lake (16th century)
• Saint Joseph the New of Cappadocia (c. 1860)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyr Nikephoros of Crete, by hanging, for renouncing Islam and confessing his faith in Christ (1832)
• New Hieromartyrs, Priests (1919):

* Nicholas Matsievsky of Perm

* Theodore Antipin of Perm

* Vladimir Fokin of Krasnoyarsk

• New Hieroconfessor Vladimir Khirasko, Archpriest of Minsk (1932)

Other commemorations

• Synaxis of the Myriad of Holy Angels (Synaxis of the Myriangelon)
• Consecration of the Church of St. Stephen in Placidia Palace, Constantinople
• Chernigov-Eletskaya Icon of the Mother of God (1060)
• Glykophilousa (New Valaam) Icon of the Mother of God
• Repose of Blessed Nun Eupraxia of Teliakov village, Kostroma (1823)

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• January 11/January 24. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• January 24 / January 11. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 11. 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.&nbsp;7.
• January 11. 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.&nbsp;11–12.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 11 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 11 ΙανουαρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 24 января (11 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 11 января (ст.ст.) 24 января 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).