January 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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January 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Jan. 15 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 17-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 29 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Honoratus of Arles, archbishop and founder of Lerins Monastery...
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 18
January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Jan. 17 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 19-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 31 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Athanasius the Great *Saint Cyril of Alexandria, archbishop...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 30 by Old CalendaristsOld 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
- Venerable Anthony the GreatAnthony the GreatAnthony the Great or Antony the Great , , also known as Saint Anthony, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Abba Antonius , and Father of All Monks, was a Christian saint from Egypt, a prominent leader among the Desert Fathers...
and God-bearing (356356Year 356 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Iulianus...
) - SaintSaintA 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...
Theodosius the Great, Roman EmperorRoman EmperorThe Roman emperor was the ruler of the Roman State during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office although at any given time, a given title was associated with the emperor...
(395395Year 395 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Olybrius and Probinus...
) - Saint Achilles the Confessor, hermit of EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
(5th century) - Saint Anthony the New of Berrhia in MacedoniaRepublic of MacedoniaMacedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
- Saint Anthony of Dymsk in Novgorod (1224)
- Saint Anthony of Krasny Kholm, monkMonkA monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...
(1481) - Saint Anthony of Chernoezersk, monk (16th century)
- Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod
- MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
George of Ioannina