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Jan. 22 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 24-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 5 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Hieromartyr Clement of Ancyra, bishop, and martyr Agathangelus...

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Jan. 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 26-Fixed commemorations:All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 7 by Old Calendarists.-Saints:*Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople...


Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 6 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...

.

Saints

  • Venerable Xenia of Rome (5th century)
  • 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...

     Macedonius of Syria
    Macedonius of Syria
    Macedonius the Hermit, sometimes known as Macedonius Kritophagus lived at the turn of the fourth to fifth century in Syria. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, with a feast day of January 24....

    , hermit (420
    420
    Year 420 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius and Constantius...

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

    s Babylas of Sicily and his disciples Timothy and Agapius (3rd century)
  • Martyrs Paul, Pausirius, and Theodotian of Egypt
    Egypt
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     (3rd century)
  • Saint Philo of Kalpa in Cyprus
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

    , 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...

     (5th century)
  • Saint Philippicus the Presbyter
    Presbyter
    Presbyter in the New Testament refers to a leader in local Christian congregations, then a synonym of episkopos...

  • Martyrs Barsinaeus of Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

     and his two brothers
  • Saint Dionysius of Olympus
    Olympus
    -In antiquity:A total of nineteen mountains were referred to as Olympos or Olympus in antiquity. Some of these mountains are:Greece...

    and Platina
    Platina
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    , also of Mount Athos
    Mount Athos
    Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...

     (15th century)
  • Martyr John of Kazan (1529)
  • Saint Gerasimus of Perm, bishop (1441)
  • Saint Xenia of Petersburg, Fool-for-Christ
  • Saint Felician of Foligno
    Felician of Foligno
    Saint Felician of Foligno is the patron saint of Foligno.-Biography:According to Christian tradition, he was born in Forum Flaminii , on the Via Flaminia, of a Christian family, around 160 AD...

     in Italy
    Italy
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    , bishop
  • Saint Lupicinus of Lipidiaco 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...

  • Martyr Hermogenes
  • Martyr Mamas
  • Saint Neophytus of Cyprus, the recluse

Other commemorations

  • Translation of the relic
    Relic
    In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial...

    s of Saint Athanasius the Persian (7th century)
  • Repose of Abbess Sophia of Shamorodino Convent (1888)
  • Repose of Nektary of Seattle, bishop (1983)
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