January 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 13 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 15

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 27 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 14th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 1.

Feasts

• Apodosis (Leavetaking) of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Saints

• Virgin Martyr Agnes, in dark solitary confinement
• Saint Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Georgia (335)
• Saint Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery (4th century)
• The Holy Fathers slain at Mount Sinai and Raithu (4th-5th century), including the Holy 38 Fathers slain at Mount Sinai, and the Holy 33 Fathers slain at Raithu:

* Hieromartyrs Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius, Elias, and others

• Venerable Theodulus (Theodoulos), son of Venerable Nilus of Sinai (5th century)
• Venerable Stephen, Abbot of Chenolakkos Monastery in Triglia, near Chalcedon (716)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saint Felix, a presbyter at Nola near Naples, Italy, sometimes referred to as a martyr (c. 250)
• Saint Euphrasius, a bishop martyred in North Africa by the Arian Vandals
• Saint Dacius (Datius), Bishop of Milan (552)
• Saint Kentigern (Mungo), first Bishop of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Scotland (614) <small>(see also January 13 - Greek and West)</small>
• Saint Fulgentius of Cartagena, Bishop of Ecija, Spain (630 or 632)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Sava I (Savva I), Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia (1235) <small>(see also January 12)</small>
• Saint Joannicius of Tarnovo, Metropolitan of Tarnovo in Bulgaria (13th century)
• Saint Acacius, Bishop of Tver (1567) <small>(see also June 29)</small>
• Saint Meletius (Meletios) Yakimov, Bishop of Ryazan, Missionary to Yakutia (1900)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Ambrose (Ambrosius) Gudko, Bishop of Sarapul and Yelabug (1918)
• New Hieromartyrs Platon Kulbusch, Bishop of Revel (Tallinn), Estonia, Nicholas Bezhanitsky and Michael Bleive, Archpriests (1919), and all the New Martyrs of Estonia <small>(see also January 1)</small>
• New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery near Kazan: Joseph, Anthony, Barlaam, Job, and Sergius, Hieromonks, and Peter, Novice (1930)
• New Hieroconfessor John Kevroletin, Hieroschemamonk of Verkhoturye (1961)

Other commemorations

• Repose of Nicholas Motovilov (1879), disciple of Saint Seraphim of Sarov
• Repose of Hieromonk Cosmas of Grigoriou, Missionary to Zaire (1989)

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Notes

References

Sources

• January 14/January 27. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• January 27 / January 14. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 14. 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. 7.
• January 14. 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. 14–15.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 14 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 14 ΙανουαρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 27 января (14 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 14 января (ст.ст.) 27 января 2014 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).