January 17 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 19
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 31 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 5.
Saints
- Martyr Theodula and her companions Helladius, Theodoulos, Boethius, Evagrius, and Macarius, of Anazarbus, Cilicia (c. 304)
- Martyr Xenia, by fire
- Saint Athanasius the Great, Patriarch of Alexandria (373)
- Venerable Marcian, Monk of Cyrrhus, Syria (c. 388)
- Venerable Silvanus (Sylvanus) the Ascetic of Gaza, Palestine (before 414)
- Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria (444)
- Venerable Ephraim (Ephraimios), Bishop of Mylasa, Caria, Asia Minor (5th century)
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Virgin Martyr Prisca, venerated from ancient times in Rome, where a church is dedicated to her on the Aventine (1st or 3rd century)
- Martyrs Archelais, Thecla and Susanna, three holy virgins, at Salerno (293) <small>(see also: June 6)</small>
- Saint Volusianus of Tours, a married senator who was chosen Bishop of Tours in France and shortly after driven out by Arian Visigoths (496)
- Saint Liberata of Como, a holy virgin in Como in Italy where with her sister Saint Faustina she founded the convent of Santa Margarita (580)
- Saint Leobardus the Recluse of Marmoutier, Gaul (593)
- Saint Ninnidh of Inishmacsaint (Inismacsaint), Ireland (6th century) <small>(see also: January 17)</small>
- Saint Deicolus, one of the twelve disciples to accompany St. Columbanus in his missionary enterprise (625)
- Saint Ulfrid (Wolfred, Wulfrid, Wilfrid), missionary in Germany and Sweden, martyred for destroying an image of Thor (1028)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Ephraim the Lesser (the Philosopher) of Georgia (1101)
- Venerable Cyril, Abbot of Kiev (1146)
- Saint Joachim I, Patriarch of Tarnovo (Turnovo, Trnovo) and Bulgaria (1248)
- Venerable Schemamonk Cyril and Schemanun Maria (both c. 1337), parents of Saint Sergius of Radonezh
- Saint Maximus the New of Serbia, Metropolitan of Wallachia (1516), son of Saint Stefan BrankoviÃÂ the Blind, Despot of Serbia
- Venerable Athanasius, Monk of Valaam Monastery and Abbot of Syamzha (Syadem, Syandema, Syandemsk, Syandemsky), Vologda Oblast (1550)
- Righteous Athanasius, Fool for Christ of Novolotsk (Navolotsk) Monastery, Karelia (16th-17th centuries)
- Venerable Christophoros "Papoulakos" (Panayiotopoulos), missionary monk and defender of Orthodoxy in the new Kingdom of Greece (1861)
- Venerable Alexis Shushania, Hieromonk of Teklati, Georgia (1923)
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Michael Kargopolov, Priest (1919)
- New Hieromartyr Eugene Isadsky, Priest (1930)
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Zubkovich, Archpriest of Smolevichi, Belorussia (1937)
- New Hieromartyrs Nicholas Krasovsky, Sergius Lebedev, and Alexander Rousinov, Priests (1938)
Other commemorations
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Notes
References
Sources
- January 18/January 31. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- January 31 / January 18. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- January 18. 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 18. 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. 18âÂÂ19.
Greek Sources
Russian Sources