January 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 5
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 22.
Feasts
Saints
- Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles
- Martyr Djan Darada, the Ethiopian eunuch of Queen Candace (1st century) <small>(see also: June 17, August 27)</small>
- Martyrs Chrysanthus and Euphemia (Euthymia) in Constantinople
- Martyrs Zosimas the Hermit and Athanasius the Commentarisius (prison warden), anchorites of Cilicia (3rdâÂÂ4th century)
- Venerable Theoprobus of Karpasia, Bishop of Karpasia in Cyprus (4th century)
- Venerable Apollinaria the Senator of Egypt (5th century) <small>(see also: January 5)</small>
- Venerable Evagrius (fellow-ascetic of Saint Shio of Mgvime), with Saint Elias the Deacon, and other Disciples of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, of the Shio-Mgvime Monastery in Georgia (6th century)
- The Holy Six Martyrs <small>(see also: January 15)</small>
- Saint Euthymius the Younger, Monk of Thessalonica
- Venerable Timothy the Stylite of Kakhshata (Kakhushta) (872)
- Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop
- Martyr Uvelicius
- Martyr Amma
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Linus, the first Pope of Rome (c. 76) <small>(see also: November 4, November 5)</small>
- Saint Clement I, one of the Seventy Apostles, he was the third Pope of Rome (c. 101) <small>(see also: September 10, November 25, April 22)</small>
- Saint Mavilus (Majulus), a martyr in Hadrumetum in North Africa, thrown to wild beasts at the time of Caracalla (212)
- Martyrs Priscus, Priscillian and Benedicta, in Rome (c. 361 â 363)
- Martyr Dafrosa (Affrosa), the mother of Saint Bibiana, was martyred in Rome under Julian the Apostate (c. 361 â 363)
- Martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Eugene, Marcian, Quintus, Theodotus and Tryphon, in North Africa under the Arian Hunneric, King of the Vandals (c. 484)
- Saint Gregory, Bishop of Langres in Gaul, renowned for miracles (539âÂÂ540)
- Saint Ferreolus of Uzès, Bishop of Uzès (581)
- Saint Pharäildis (Vareide, Verylde, Veerle), one of the patron-saints of Ghent (c. 740)
- Saint Rigobert, Archbishop of Rheims and Confessor (c. 745)
- Venerable Theoctistus, Abbot of Cucomo (Coucouma, Coucoumis) Monastery, Sicily (800)
- Saint Libentius (Liäwizo I), born in Swabia in Germany, he became Archbishop of Hamburg in 988 (1013)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
New martyrs and confessors
- New Venerable Hieromartyr Euthymius, Abbot, and twelve monk-martyrs of Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos, who suffered martyrdom for denouncing the Latinizing rulers Michael VIII Palaiologos and John XI Bekkos of Constantinople as heretics (1285)
- New Venerable Martyr Onuphrius Manassias of Gabrovo and Hilandar Monastery, Mount Athos, on Chios (1818)
- New Hieromartyrs Alexander Skalsky, Stephan Ponomarev, and Philip Grigoriev, Archpriests of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (1933)
- New Hieromartyr Mark Novoselov, Bishop of Sergievsk (1938)
- New Hieromartyr Nicholas Maslov, Priest of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (1939)
- New Hieromartyr Paul Felitsyn, Priest (1941)
Other commemorations
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Notes
References
Sources
- January 4/January 17. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
- January 17 / January 4. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
- January 4. 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. 5.
- January 4. 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. 5âÂÂ6.
Greek Sources
Russian Sources