January 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 26

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 12.

Saints

• Venerable Castinus, Bishop of Byzantium (240)
• Martyr Medula and her entourage
• Venerable Apollo of the Thebaid, ascetic and wonderworker, reposed in peace (c. 361-363)
• Saint Bretanion (Vetranion), Bishop of Tomis in Moesia, Confessor (c. 380)
• Venerable Publius the Ascetic of Euphratensis, Syria (380)
• Venerable Theodotos, Igumen of the "Monastery of St. Publius"
• Saint Gregory the Theologian of Nazianzus, Archbishop of Constantinople (390)
• Venerable Mares the Singer of Omeros near Cyrrhus, Syria (430)
• Venerable Demetrius the Skevophylax ("Keeper of the Sacred Vessels") of Constantinople (8th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Martyr Felicitas of Rome, and her seven sons (c. 164): <small>(see also: November 23 in the West)</small>

* Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial

• Saint Artemas, a child martyr in Pozzuoli (Puteoli) in Italy
• Saint Dwynwen of Llanddwyn Island, Patroness of Love and Marriage (c. 460)
• Saint Eochod of Galloway, Apostle of the Picts of Galloway (597)
• Saint Maurus (584) and Saint Placidus (6th century), early disciples of Saint Benedict
• Saint Sigeberht of East Anglia (Sigebert), the first Christian King of East Anglia in England (634)
• Saint Racho (Ragnobert), Bishop of Autun, France (c. 660)
• Hieromartyr Praejectus (Priest, Prest, Preils, Prix), Bishop of Clermont (676)
• Saint Amarinus, Abbot of a monastery in the Vosges in France, and companion in martyrdom of Saint Praejectus (Priest) (676)
• Saint Thorgyth (Tortgith), nun at the convent of Barking in England with Saint Ethelburgh (c. 700)
• Saint Poppo, Abbot of Stavelot-Malmédy in Belgium, renowned for miracles (1048)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Moses, Archbishop of Novgorod (1362) <small>(see also: April 19 - Translation)</small>
• Saint Gregory of Golutvin (15th century)
• Saint Basian, Archbishop of Rostov (1516) <small>(see also: March 23)</small>
• Venerable Anatole I Zertsalov, Elder of Optina Monastery (1894)
• Saint Gabriel, Bishop of Imereti, Georgia (1896)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyr Auxentius of Constantinople (1720)
• New Hieromartyr Dositheus, Archbishop of Tbilisi, Georgia (1795) <small>(see also: September 12)</small>
• New Hieromartyr Vladimir Bogoyavlensky, Metropolitan of Kiev, Protomartyr of the Communist yoke in Russia (1918)
• Venerable New Martyr Elizabeth Romanova (Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine) (1918)
• Venerable New Martyr Abbess Margaret Gunaronulo of Menzelino (1918)
• New Hieromartyr Peter Zverev, Archbishop of Voronezh (1929)
• New Hieromartyr Basil Zelentsov, Bishop of Priluki (1930) <small>(see also: March 22)</small>
• New Martyr Athanasia Lepeshkin, Abbess of Zosima Hermitage (Smolensk Hodigitria Convent), near Moscow <small>()</small> (1931)
• New Hieromartyr Stephen Grachev, Priest (1938)
• New Martyr Boris Zavarin (1938)

Other commemorations

• Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Assuage My Sorrow" (1640)
• Icons of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy"
• Repose of Archpriest Sergius Orlov of Akulovo (1975)
• Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church (1992, 2013) <small>(celebrated on the Sunday nearest to January 25)</small>

Icon gallery

Notes

References

Sources

• January 25 / February 7. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• February 7 / January 25. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 25. 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. 10.
• January 25. 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. 25–26.
• 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. 35–36.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 25 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 25 ΙανουαρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 7 февраля (25 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 25 января (ст.ст.) 7 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).