January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 8 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – January 10

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For January 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 27.

Feasts

• Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

Saints

• Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Sameas, Semeias), (III Kings 12:22), (10th century BC) <small>(Russian use only, see also: January 8 - Standard use)</small>
• Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259)
• Martyr Antonina of Nicomedia, martyred at sea
• Martyr Lawrence, martyred in the arena, by the pagans
• Saint Peter, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, brother of Saints Macrina the Younger, Basil the Great, Naucratius, and Gregory of Nyssa, and Blessed Theosebia (c. 395)
• Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker of Tarsus (821)
• Venerable Basil and Gregory the Wonderworkers, uncles of Saint Eustratius (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Virgin Martyr Paschasia, venerated from ancient times in Dijon, France (c. 178)
• Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and seven other Companions - Twelve martyrs in North Africa, probably under Decian (c. 250)
• Virgin Martyr Marciana of Mauretania, in Mauritania in North Africa (c. 303)
• Saint Marcellinus of Ancona, Bishop of Ancona (566)
• Saint Waningus (Vaneng), Benedictine abbot (c. 686)
• Saint Maurontus (Maurontius, Mauruntius), founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France (c. 700)
• Saint Adrian, Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's, in Canterbury (710)
• Saint Berhtwald (Brithwald, Brihtwald), a monk and then the Abbot of Reculver in Kent, and in 693 becoming the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury (731)
• Saint Fillan (Foelan, Foellan, Foilan), Abbot of Strath Fillan, born in Ireland, he accompanied his mother, Saint Kentigerna, and his relative, Saint Comgan, to Scotland, where he lived as a monk (8th century)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Saint Jonah (Miroshnichenko) of Kiev (Peter in Schema), Wonderworker, founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1902)
• Elder Bessarion of Agathonos (1991)

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyr Parthena of Edessa, Macedonia (1375)
• New Hieromartyr Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of all Russia (1569)
• New Hieromartyr Paul Nikolsky, Priest (1943)
• New Hieromartyr Mihailo Barbich, Priest of Krtoli (c. 1946)

Other commemorations

• Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople (869)
• Translation of the relics (903) of Saint Judoc, Hermit of Ponthieu

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Notes

References

Sources

• January 9/January 22. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• January 22 / January 9. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 9. 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. 6.
• January 9. 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. p. 10.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: 9 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Συναξαριστής. 9 ΙανουαρίοÏÂ. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• 22 января (9 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• 9 января (ст.ст.) 22 января 2014 (нов. ст.) . Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).