January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Jan. 26 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 28-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 9 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Peter of Egypt *Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople...

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January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Jan. 28 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 30-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 11 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Laurence, recluse of Kiev Caves Monastery...


Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 10 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

  • Venerable Ephraim the Syrian
    Ephrem the Syrian
    Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world, and especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church, as a saint.Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as...

     (373
    373
    Year 373 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Valens...

    )
  • Venerable Theodosius of Totma
    Totma
    Totma is a town and the administrative center of Totemsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia,, located on the left bank of the Sukhona River at the confluence with the Pesya Denga River. Municipally, it is incorporated as Totemskoe Urban Settlement in Totemsky Municipal District. Population:...

     in Vologda
    Vologda
    Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...

    , abbot
    Abbot
    The word abbot, meaning father, is a title given to the head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not actually the head of a monastery...

     (1568)
  • 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...

     Isaac of Nineveh
    Isaac of Nineveh
    Isaac of Nineveh also remembered as Isaac the Syrian and Isaac Syrus was a Seventh century bishop and theologian best remembered for his written work. He is also regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church...

    , bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     in Syria (7th century)
  • Saint John of Recomans in Gaul
    Gaul
    Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine. The Gauls were the speakers of...

  • Saint Palladius the Hermit of Antioch
    Palladius of Antioch
    Palladius of Antioch, Saint Palladius the Desert Dweller is an Orthodox and Catholic saint. Palladius was a hermit in the desert near Antioch, Syria . He was a friend of Saint Simeon...

     (4th century)
  • Saint Ephraim of Novotorzhsk, abbot and wonderworker (1053)
  • Saint Ephraim of Pereyaslavl
    Ephraim of Pereyaslavl
    Saint Ephraim of Pereyaslav, also Saint Ephraim of the Caves or Saint Ephraim, Bishop of Pereslav - Eastern Orthodox saint, bishop of Pereyaslav ....

    , bishop (1096)
  • Saint James the Ascetic of Porphyrianos
  • Salome of Ujarma (4th century, Georgia
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

    )
  • Saint Archillus
  • Saint Luarsab
    Luarsab II of Kartli
    The Holy Martyr Luarsab II , of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of Kartli from 1606 to 1615. He is known for his martyr’s death at the hands of the Persian shah Abbas I...

     (Georgia
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

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

     Charita
  • Brigid and Maura, Daughters of a Scottish Chieftain, Martyrs in Picardy on the Way to Rome;
  • Canair (Kinnera), Virgin on the Isle of Inniscathy, Bantry Bay, Ireland;


New Martyrs of Russia:
  • Saint Theodore, Spanish presbyter (1933)
  • Saint Ignatius, bishop of Skopino
  • Martyr Vladmir, presbyter and martyr Bartholomew (1938)
  • Martyr Olga (1938)
  • Blessed Leotius, confessor (1972)
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