January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...

Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rul ...

January 15 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. * 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 27 by

Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church, also called the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptized members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via ...

es on the

Old Calendar Old Calendarists (Greek language, Greek: ''palaioimerologitai'' or ''palaioimerologites''), also known as Old Feasters (''palaioeortologitai''), Genuine Orthodox Christians or True Orthodox Christians (GOC; ), are traditionalist groups of Easte ...

. For January 14th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on

January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...

Feasts

* Apodosis (Leavetaking) of the

Theophany Theophany (from Ancient Greek , meaning "appearance of a deity") is a personal encounter with a deity, that is an event where the manifestation of a deity occurs in an observable way. Specifically, it "refers to the temporal and spatial manifest ...

of Our Lord and Savior

Jesus Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

.January 14/January 27
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).

Saints

* Virgin-martyr Agnes, in dark

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. * Saint

Nina Nina may refer to: * Nina (name), a feminine given name and surname Acronyms *National Iraqi News Agency, a news service in Iraq * Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, on the campus of Norwegian University of Science and Technology *No income, ...

(Nino),

Equal-to-the-Apostles Equal-to-apostles or equal-to-the-apostles (; la, aequalis apostolis; ar, معادل الرسل, ''muʿādil ar-rusul''; ka, მოციქულთასწორი, tr; ro, întocmai cu Apostolii; russian: равноапостольный, ...

, Enlightener of

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

(335) * Saint Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery (4th century) * The Holy Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai and Raithu (4th-5th century), including the Holy 38 Fathers slain at

Mt. Sinai Mount Sinai ( he , הר סיני ''Har Sinai''; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ ''Ṭūrāʾ Dsyny''), traditionally known as Jabal Musa ( ar, جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mount Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is ...

, and the Holy 33 Fathers slain at Raithu: :*

Hieromartyr In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, a hieromartyr is a martyr (one who dies for his beliefs) who was a bishop or priest. Analogously, a monk who is a priest is known as a hieromonk A hieromonk ( el, Ἱερομόναχος, Ieromonachos; ka, � ...

s Isaiah, Sabbas, Moses and his disciple Moses, Jeremiah, Paul, Adam, Sergius, Domnus, Proclus, Hypatius, Isaac, Macarius, Mark, Benjamin, Eusebius, Elias, and others. * Saint Theodoulos, son of St. Nilus of Sinai (5th century) * Venerable Stephen, Abbot of Chenolakkos Monastery in

Triglia Triglia ( el, Τρίγλια) is a former municipality in Chalkidiki, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Nea Propontida, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 121.959 km2 ...

, near

Chalcedon Chalcedon ( or ; , sometimes transliterated as ''Chalkedon'') was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor. It was located almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari (modern Üsküdar) and it is now a district of the cit ...

(716)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Saint

Felix of Nola Saint Felix of Nola, sometimes also called ''St. Felix martyr'', (d. ca. 260) was a Christian presbyter at Nola near Naples in Italy. He sold off his possessions to give to the poor, but was arrested and tortured for his Christian faith during t ...

, a presbyter at Nola near Naples in Italy, sometimes referred to as a martyr (c. 250)January 14
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Saint Euphrasius, a bishop martyred in North Africa by the Arian Vandals. * Saint Dacius (''Datius''), Bishop of Milan (552) * Saint Kentigern (''Kentigern Mungo, Kentigern of Glasgow''), first Bishop of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Scotland (614) (''see also

- Greek and West'')

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Saint Sava I, Enlightener and First Archbishop of Serbia (1235) (''see also

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned s ...

'') * Saint Joannicius of Tarnovo, Metropolitan of

Tarnovo Veliko Tarnovo ( bg, Велико Търново, Veliko Tărnovo, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. Often referred as the "''City of the Tsars''", Veliko Tarnovo ...

in Bulgaria (13th century) * Saint Acacius, Bishop of Tver (1567) (''see also

June 29 Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. *1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...

'') * Saint Meletius (Yakimov), Bishop of Ryazan, Missionary to

Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...

(1900)January 27 / January 14
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).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.7. * New Hiero-Confessor John (Kevroletin), Hiero-

Schemamonk The degrees of Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic monasticism are the stages an Eastern Orthodox monk or nun passes through in their religious vocation. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the process of becoming a monk or nun is intentionally slo ...

, of Verkhoturye (1961)

New martyrs and confessors

* New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery near Kazan (c. 1933) * New Martyr Ambrose (Gudko), Bishop of

Sarapul Sarapul ( Udmurt and russian: Сара́пул) is a city and a river port in the Udmurt Republic, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kama River, southeast of Izhevsk, the capital of the republic. Population: History Sarapul is one of ...

and Yelabug (1918)

Other commemorations

* Repose of Nicholas Motovilov (1879), disciple of St. Seraphim of Sarov. * Repose of Hieromonk Cosmas of Grigoriou, Missionary to

Zaire Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...

(1989)Demetrios Aslanidis and Monk Damascene Grigoriatis.
Apostle to Zaire: The Life & Legacy of Blessed Father Cosmas of Grigoriou
.'' Uncut Mountain Press, 2001. 240pp.

Icon gallery

File:Azize nino.jpg, St

(Nino),

, Enlightener of

. File:Sinai-saints.jpg, Holy fathers slain at

and Raithu. File:Stephen of Bethany (Menologion of Basil II).jpg, Venerable Stephen, Abbot of Chenolakkos Monastery in

, near

. File:E3 Dazio 35m.JPG, St Dacius, Bishop of Milan, as an exorcist. File:Sveti Sava Kraljeva Crkva.jpg, Saint Sava I,

, Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia. File:Meletiy - Yakimov.jpg, St Meletius (Yakimov), Bishop of Ryazan, Missionary to

. File:Амвросий (Гудко).jpg, New Martyr Ambrosius (Gudko), Bishop of

and Yelabug. File:Motovilov.gif, Nicholas Motovilov, disciple of St. Seraphim of Sarov, and

Fool for Christ Foolishness for Christ ( el, διά Χριστόν σαλότητα, cu, оуродъ, юродъ) refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining an ascetic order or religious life, or deliberately flouting soci ...

Notes

References

Sources

January 14/January 27
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
January 27 / January 14
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
January 14
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. 7.

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. pp. 14–15. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
14 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
14 Ιανουαρίου
'' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). Russian Sources *

Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru). *
14 января (ст.ст.) 27 января 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). {{DEFAULTSORT:January 14 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) January in the Eastern Orthodox calendar