Orthodox Calendar
Ianuarie 2025
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1

Nativity Fast

  • Holy Martyr Boniface (290)

2

Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Repose of St. John of Kronstadt
  • Holy Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107)
  • Repose of Our Holy Father John of Kronstadt (1908)

3

Nativity Fast

  • Holy Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia and those with her (304)
  • Our Holy Father Peter, Metropolitan of Moscow (1326)
  • Saint Procopius of Vyatka, Fool for Christ (1627)

4

Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Saturday before Nativity
  • Holy Great Martyr Anastasia the Widow, the Deliverer from Potions (290)

5

Nativity Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • 28th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Sunday before Nativity
  • The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete (250)
  • Our Venerable Father Paul, Archbishop of Neocaesarea (4th c.)
  • Our Holy Father Nahum of Ochrid, Wonderworker and Enlightener of the Slavs (ca. 900)

6

Nativity Fast—Strict Fast

  • Eve of Nativity
  • Holy Virgin and Martyr Eugenia and her companions (ca. 190)

7

  • Nativity of Christ
  • The Nativity according to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ
  • The Shepherds who saw the Lord
  • The Veneration of the Magi

8

  • Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos
  • Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos.
  • The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family
  • Our Holy Father Euthymius the Confessor, Bishop of Sardis (840)
  • Our Holy Father Constantine of Synnada (7th c.)

9

  • Protomartyr Stephen
  • Holy First Martyr and Archdeacon Stephen
  • Our Righteous Father Theodore the Branded, brother of St Theophanes the Hymnographer

10

  • The Twenty Thousand Martyrs burned to death in their church in Nicomedia (ca. 304).
  • Our Holy Father Simon the Outpourer of Myrrh, Founder of Simonopetra Monastery, Mt Athos (1287)

11

  • Saturday after Nativity
  • The Holy Infants Killed for Christ's Sake in Bethlehem
  • Our Venerable Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (485)

12

  • 29th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Sunday after Nativity
  • Holy Virgin and Martyr Anysia (298)
  • Our Holy Father Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563)

13

  • Our Holy Mother Melania the Younger of Rome (439)
  • Saint Zoticus, Cherisher of the Poor and Servant of Lepers (4th c)
  • St Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid (ca. 1126)

14

  • Circumcision of Our Lord; St Basil the Great
  • Sunday before Theophany is read on this day
  • The Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ
  • Our Father among the Saints Basil the Great (379).
  • St Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus (374), father of St Gregory the Theologian
  • St Emilia (375), mother of Sts Macrina, Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Peter of Sebaste, and Theosevia

15

  • Forefeast of Theophany
  • St Seraphim of Sarov (1833)
  • St Sylvester, Pope of Rome (335)
  • Venerable Juliana of Lazarevskoye (1604)
  • Holy New Martyr George the Georgian (1770)

16

  • Forefeast of Theophany
  • Prophet Malachi (ca. 400 BC)
  • Holy Martyr Gordius of Caesarea (4th c.)
  • Our Holy Mother Genevieve of Paris (ca. 502)

17

  • Royal Hours of Theophany
  • Forefeast of Theophany
  • Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles.
  • The Ethiopian Eunuch of Queen Candace
  • Venerable Apollinaria (5th c.)

18

Fast—Wine and Oil are Allowed

  • Saturday before Theophany – Eve of Theophany
  • Holy Martyrs Theopemptus and Theonas (ca. 290)
  • Our Venerable Mother Syncletike (4th c.)

19

  • 30th Sunday after Pentecost
  • Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
  • The Holy Theophany of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ

20

  • Synaxis of St John the Baptist
  • The Synaxis of the Venerable and Illustrious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John.
  • New Martyr Athanasius of Attalia (1700)
  • Our Venerable Father Cedd, Bishop of Essex and Abbot of Lastingham (664)

21

  • Our Venerable Mother Domnica (Domnina) (ca. 474)
  • Saint Atticus, Patriarch of Constantinople (425)
  • Saint Severinus (482)

22

Fast

  • Holy Martyr Polyeuctus (ca. 250)
  • Saint Peter II, Bishop of Sebaste (4th c.)
  • Venerable Eustratius the Wonderworker (9th c.)
  • Saint Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow (1569)

23

  • Our Holy Father Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa (395)
  • Our Holy Father Theophan the Recluse (1894)

24

Fast

  • Ven. Theodosius the Great
  • Our Holy Father Theodosius the Cenobiarch (519)
  • The Venerable Vitalis (5th c.)
  • Venerable Michael of Klops, Fool for Christ (1456)

25

  • Saturday after Theophany
  • Holy Martyr Tatiana (ca. 230)
  • Venerable Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth (689-690)

26

  • 31st Sunday after Pentecost
  • Sunday after Theophany
  • Holy Martyrs Hermylus and Stratonicus (315)
  • Our Holy Father Maximos Kavsokalybites (the Hut-burner) (1365)
  • Our Holy Father Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers (369)

27

  • Leavetaking of Theophany
  • Saint Nina, Equal to the Apostles and Enlightener of Georgia (335)
  • Our Holy Father Sava (Sabbas), Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia (1236)
  • The Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu (4th – 5th c.)

28

  • Our Holy Father Paul of Thebes (342)
  • Our Holy Father John Kalyvites (the hut-dweller) (ca. 450)
  • Saint Ita of Kileedy, Ireland (570)

29

Fast

  • Veneration of the precious Chains of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Peter.

30

  • Ven. Godbearing Anthony the Great
  • Our Holy Godbearing Father Anthony the Great (356).
  • Pious Emperor Theodosius the Great (395)
  • Our Holy Father Makarios (Kalogeras) of Patmos (1737)

31

Fast

  • Our Holy Fathers Athanasius the Great (373) and Cyril (444), Patriarchs of Alexandria