January 14 Events Pre-1600 *1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 *1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...

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 16 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. * 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 28 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 15th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on

January 2 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empi ...

Saints

* Monk-martyr Pansophius of Alexandria (c. 250)January 15/January 28
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). * Martyrs Elpidios, Danax, and Helen. ''(see also:

)'' * Virgin-Martyr Charitina of Amisus (c. 304) ''(see also:

September 4 Events Pre-1600 * 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire. * 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne ove ...

October 5 Events Pre-1600 * 610 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor. * 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope. * 869 – The Fourth Co ...

)'' * ''Venerable

Paul of Thebes Paul of Thebes (; , ''Paûlos ho Thēbaîos''; ; c. 227 – c. 341), commonly known as Paul the First Hermit or Paul the Anchorite, was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit, who was claimed to have lived alone in the deser ...

'' (341) * Holy 6 Monk-Martyrs of the Desert, who reposed peacefully. * Venerable

Salome of Armenia Salome ( hy, Սալոմե, ka, სალომე; born sometime after 297, died about 361) was an Armenian princess from the Arsacid dynasty who was married into the Chosroid Dynasty of Iberia. She was a daughter of King Tiridates III of Armenia ...

, and Venerable Perozhavra of Sivnia, Georgia (c. 361) * Saint

Isidore of Scété Saint Isidore of Scetes (died ) was a 4th-century A.D. Egyptian Christian priest and desert ascetic. Isidore was one of the Desert Fathers and was a companion of Macarius the Great. John Cassian lists him as the leader of the one of the four mo ...

(died c. 390), Egyptian priest and desert ascetic * Venerable Alexander the Ever-Vigilant, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones ("the Ever-Vigilant"), at Gomon, in north-eastern

Bithynia Bithynia (; Koine Greek: , ''Bithynía'') was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Pa ...

(c. 426-427) (''see also:

February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...

July 3 Events Pre-1600 * 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium. * 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revol ...

'') * ''Venerable John Calabytes, the "hut-dweller" of Constantinople'' (c. 450) * Venerable Prochorus, Abbot in the Vranski Desert on the River Pchinja, in Bulgaria (10th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints

* Virgin-martyr Secundina, scourged to death near Rome in the persecution of Decius (c. 250)January 15
Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. * Martyr Ephysius of Sardinia (303) * Saint Maximus,

Bishop of Nola The Diocese of Nola ( la, Dioecesis Nolana) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Italy, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Naples.

(c. 250) * Saints

Maura and Britta Maura and Britta were two 4th-century Christian martyrs. They are venerated as saints, but their story is lost. According to Gregory of Tours, their relics were discovered by his predecessor as Bishop of Tours, Eufronius Eufronius or Euphronius ...

, two holy virgins in France (4th century) * Saint

Eugippius Eugippius (circa 460 – circa 535, Castellum Lucullanum) was a disciple and the biographer of Saint Severinus of Noricum. After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to Naples and founded a monastery on the site of a 1st-century Roman ...

, ordained priest at Rome, was biographer of St

Severinus of Noricum Severinus of Noricum ( 410 – 8 January 482) is a saint, known as the "Apostle to Noricum". It has been speculated that he was born in either Southern Italy or in the Roman province of Africa. Severinus himself refused to discuss his personal ...

(535) * Saint

Íte of Killeedy Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad (d. 570/577), also known as Íde, Ita, Ida or Ides, was an early Irish nun and patron saint of Killeedy (Cluain Credhail). She was known as the "foster mother of the saints of Erin". The name "Ita" ("thirst for holiness" ...

(''Ytha, Meda''), Hermitess in

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

and foster-mother of Saint

Brendan Brendan may refer to: People * Saint Brendan the Navigator (c. 484 – c. 577) was an Irish monastic saint. * Saint Brendan of Birr (died 573), Abbot of Birr in Co. Offaly, contemporaneous with the above * Brendan (given name), a masculine given na ...

(570) * Saint Maurus, disciple of St. Benedict of Nursia (584) * Saint Lleudadd (''Laudatus''), first Abbot of

Bardsey Island Bardsey Island ( cy, Ynys Enlli), known as the legendary "Island of 20,000 Saints", is located off the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. The Welsh name means "The Island in the Currents", while its English name refers to the "Islan ...

, Wales (6th century) * Saint

Sawyl Penuchel Sawyl Penuchel or Ben Uchel ("high-head", "arrogant"), also known as Samuil Penisel ("low-head", "humble"), was a British king of the sub-Roman period, who appears in old Welsh genealogies and the Welsh Triads. The genealogies, in which he appea ...

, the father of Asaph of Wales (6th century) * Saint Tarsicia of Rodez, an Anchoress who lived near Rodez, sister of St.

Ferréol of Uzès Saint Ferréol (Ferreolus) of Uzès (530 – January 4, 581 AD) was bishop of Uzès and possibly bishop of Nîmes (''Catholic Encyclopedia'' "Nîmes") (553-581). His Feast Day is January 4. He was born in Narbonne, apparently a grandson of C ...

(600) * Saint Malard,

Bishop of Chartres The oldest known list of bishops of Chartres is found in an 11th-century manuscript of Trinity Abbey, Vendôme. It includes 57 names from Adventus (Saint Aventin) to Aguiertus (Agobert) who died in 1060. The most well-known list is included in the ...

, present at the Council of Châlon-sur-Saône in 650 (c. 650) * Saint Bonitus,

Bishop of Clermont The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Clermont (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Claromontana''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Clermont'') is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman ...

and Confessor, later a monk (c. 710) * Saint

Emebert Emebert was an early Bishop of Cambrai, often identified with Bishop Ablebert of Cambrai (early 8th century). According to the unreliable ''Vita S. Amalbergae viduae'', Emebert was the son of Duke Witger of Lotharingia and Saint Amalberga of Ma ...

, an early

Bishop of Cambrai The Archdiocese of Cambrai ( la, Archdiocesis Cameracensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Help ...

(c. 710) * Saint

Ceolwulf of Northumbria Saint Ceolwulf was King of Northumbria from 729 until 737, except for a short period in 731 or 732 when he was deposed and quickly restored to power. Ceolwulf abdicated and entered the monastery at Lindisfarne. He was the "most glorious king" to ...

, King of Northumbria, encouraged monastic life (764) * Saint Blaithmaic (''Blathmac''), an Abbot from Ireland, went to Scotland and was martyred by the Danes on the altar steps of the church of Iona (c. 823)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

* Venerable Gabriel, founder of Lesnovo Monastery, Serbia-Bulgaria (12th century) * Venerable Barlaam of Keret Lake (16th century)
St Barlaam of Keretsk
'' OCA - Lives of the Saints.

New martyrs and confessors

* New Hieromartyr Benjamin, Bishop of Romanov (1930)January 28 / January 15
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). * New Hieromartyr Michael Samsonov, Priest (1942)15 января (ст.ст.) 28 января 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

Icon gallery

File:Saint Paul of Thebes.jpg, Venerable

. File:Anba_Bola_1.png, Venerable

. The 2 lions helped Saint Anthony to bury Saint Paul after death. File:Ballylooby Church of Our Lady and St. Kieran North Transept East Window Detail Saint Ita 2012 09 08.jpg, Saint

.
(Church of Our Lady and St. Kieran, Ballylooby, County Tipperary, Ireland)

Notes

References

Sources

January 15/January 28
Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
January 28 / January 15
HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
January 15
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). pp. 7–8.

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. 15–16. Greek Sources * Great Synaxaristes:
15 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ
ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ. * Συναξαριστής.
15 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). *
15 января (ст.ст.) 28 января 2013 (нов. ст.)
Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR). {{DEFAULTSORT:January 15 (Eastern Orthodox Liturgics) January in the Eastern Orthodox calendar