January 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 18
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 4.
Saints
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Genulfus (Genou) and Genitus, two monks who lived in Celle-sur-Nahon in France (c. 3rd century)
- Venerable Antony, Merulus and John, three monks at St. Andrew's on the Coelian Hill in Rome (6th century)
- Saint Nennius (Ninnidh), disciple of Saint Finian of Clonard, reckoned as one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland' (6th century)
- Saint Sulpicius II (Sulpitius II) the Pious (Severus the Pious), Bishop of Bourges (644, 646, or 647)
- Saint Mildgyth of Minster-in-Thanet, a Benedictine nun and later abbess of a Northumbrian convent (c. 676)
- Saint Richimirus, under the patronage of the Bishop of Le Mans, he founded the monastery later called Saint-Rigomer-des-Bois (715)
- Saint Joseph of Verona, Bishop of Freising (764)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Anthony the New Wonderworker of Beroea (Beroia, Veria), Macedonia, Greece, near the Haliacmon river (11th century)
- Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot (1147)
- Venerable Anthony, Founder of Dymsk Monastery, Novgorod (1224)
- Saint Anthony, Archbishop of Novgorod (1232)
- Saint Anthony, Founder of Krasny Kholm Monastery, Krasnokholmsky District, Tver Oblast (1481)
- Venerable Anthony of Meteora (Anthony Kantakouzènos), founder and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (15th century)
- Venerable Anthony, Founder of Chernoezersk (Chernoezero, Chermoezersk) (Black Lake) Monastery, Novgorod (16th century)
- Venerable Philotheos of Meteora, second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (16th century)
- Saint Macarius Kalogeras, Hierodeacon of Patmos (1737)
- Saint Herman Gomzin, Schema-abbot of Zosima Hermitage (1923)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838)
- New Hieromartyr Victor Evropeytsev, Priest (1931)
- New Hieromartyr Paul Uspensky, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
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Notes
References
Sources
- January 17/January 30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- January 30 / January 17. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- January 17. 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 17. 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. 17âÂÂ18.
Greek Sources
Russian Sources