January 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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January 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Jan. 18 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 20-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 1 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Venerable Macarius the Great of Egypt *Venerable Macarius of Alexandria...
- Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 21
January 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Jan. 20 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 22-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 3 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Venerable Maximus the Confessor *Martyr Neophytus of Nicaea...
Fixed commemorations
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 2 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 Euthymius the GreatEuthymius the GreatSaint Euthymius , often styled the Great, was an Abbot in Palestine.Venerated in both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.-Biography:He was born in Melitene in Lesser Armenia...
(473473Year 473 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Leo without colleague...
) - MartyrMartyrA martyr is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause, usually religious.-Meaning:...
s Bassus, Eusebius, Eutychius, and Basilides at NicomediaNicomediaNicomedia was an ancient city in what is now Turkey, founded in 712/11 BC as a Megarian colony and was originally known as Astacus . After being destroyed by Lysimachus, it was rebuilt by Nicomedes I of Bithynia in 264 BC under the name of Nicomedia, and has ever since been one of the most...
(303303Year 303 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius...
) - Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma, disciples of the Apostle Andrew in ScythiaScythiaIn antiquity, Scythian or Scyths were terms used by the Greeks to refer to certain Iranian groups of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who dwelt on the Pontic-Caspian steppe...
- Martyr Thyrsus (5th century)
- Martyr Agnes (5th century)
- 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...
Leo the GreatLeo I (emperor)Leo I was Byzantine Emperor from 457 to 474. A native of Dacia Aureliana near historic Thrace, he was known as Leo the Thracian ....
, Confessor and Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (5th century) - Martyr Anna at RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
- Martyr Zacharias at Patrai in MoreaMoreaThe Morea was the name of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. It also referred to a Byzantine province in the region, known as the Despotate of Morea.-Origins of the name:...
(1782) - Saint Euthymius the Silent of the Kiev Caves Monastery (14th century)
- Saint Laurence the Recluse of the Kiev Caves Monastery
- Saint Euthymius of Syanzhemsk (1470)
- Blessed Peter the Customs Inspector of ConstantinopleConstantinopleConstantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...