January 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 23

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 9.

Saints

• Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles (c. 96)
• Venerable Martyr Anastasius the Persian (628)
• Martyrs of Adrianople (815 or 817)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Vincent the Deacon of Saragossa, in Valencia under Diocletian (304)
• Martyrs Vincent, Orontius, and Victor, near Girona, Catalonia, Spain (305)
• Saint Vincent, Bishop of Digne, France (380)
• Saint Blaesilla, a daughter of Saint Paula (383)
• Saint Gaudentius, Bishop of Novara and Confessor (417)
• Saint Wendreda, Virgin of March, Cambridgeshire (7th century)
• Saint Dominic of Sora, founder of several monasteries - at Scandrilia, Sora, Sangro, and elsewhere, renowned for miracles (1031)
• Saint Brithwald (Bertwald), Bishop of Ramsbury (1045)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Joseph Samakos (Samakus) the Sanctified of Crete (1511)
• Venerable Macarius the Wonderworker, Founder and Abbot of Zhabyn Monastery, Belev (1623)
• Saint Joasaph Bolotov, Enlightener of Alaska and the American land (1799)
• Venerable Bessarion (Vissarion) Korkoliakos of Agathonos Monastery (1991)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Venerable Martyr Anastasius the Deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th century)
• New Venerable Martyr Gregory of Peć (17th-18th centuries)
• New Hieromartyrs John, Nicholas, Jacob, Peter, John, John (1938)
• New Hieromartyrs John Uspensky and Euthymius Tikhonravov, Priests (1938)
• New Hieromartyr Mihailo Barbić, parish priest of Krtoli (1940s)

Other commemorations

• Finding of the Holy Icon of "Panagia Eleistria" in Koroni, Messenia (1897)

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Notes

References

Sources

• January 22 / February 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• February 4 / January 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 22. 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. 9.
• January 22. 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. 22–23.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 31–32.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 22 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 22 ΙανουαρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 4 февраля (22 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 22 января (ст.ст.) 4 февраля 2014 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).