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Jan. 30 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 1-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 13 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Martyrs Cyrus and John, holy wonderworkers and unmercenaries...

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Feb. 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Feb. 3-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 15 by those churches which follow the Julian Calendar.-Feasts:...


Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 14 by Old Calendarists
Old calendarists
The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...

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Saints

  • Martyr
    Martyr
    A martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...

     Tryphon of Campsada near Apamea
    Apamea (Syria)
    Apamea was a treasure city and stud-depot of the Seleucid kings, was capital of Apamene, on the right bank of the Orontes River. . Its site is found about to the northwest of Hama, Syria, overlooking the Ghab valley...

     in Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

     (250
    250
    Year 250 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Traianus and Gratus...

    )
  • Venerable Brigid of Ireland (525
    525
    Year 525 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Probus and Philoxenus...

    )
  • Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage and catechumen
    Catechumen
    In ecclesiology, a catechumen , “‘down’” + ἠχή , “‘sound’”) is one receiving instruction from a catechist in the principles of the Christian religion with a view to baptism...

    s Saturus, Revocatus, Saturninus, Secundulus, and Felicitas (203
    203
    Year 203 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Plautianus and Geta...

    )
  • Venerable Peter Galata, hermit near Antioch
    Antioch
    Antioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the...

     in Syria (492
    492
    Year 492 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Anastasius and Rufus...

    )
  • Venerable Vendemanius (Bendemanius), hermit of Bithynia
    Bithynia
    Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:...

     (512
    512
    Year 512 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paulus and Moschianus...

    )
  • Saint
    Saint
    A saint is a holy person. In various religions, saints are people who are believed to have exceptional holiness.In Christian usage, "saint" refers to any believer who is "in Christ", and in whom Christ dwells, whether in heaven or in earth...

     Basil of Thessalonica, archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     (830
    830
    Year 830 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.-Africa:* Creation of the Ad-dimnah hospital in al-Qayrawan by the Aghlabid ruler Ziyadat Allah I.- Europe :...

    )
  • Martyr Anastasius at Nauplion (1655)
  • Saint Tryphon of Pechenga and Kola
  • Russian new martyr Peter Skipetrov (1918)
  • Saint Timothy the Confessor
  • Martyr Theonas
  • Martyr Karion
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