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January 14 2026:

Leavetaking (Apodosis) of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; Virgin-martyr Agnes, in dark solitary confinement; Saint Nina (Nino), Equal-to-the-Apostles, Enlightener of Georgia (335); Saint Joseph Analytinus of Raithu Monastery (4th c.); The Holy Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai and Raithu (4th-5th c.), including the Holy 38 Fathers slain at Mt. Sinai, and the Holy 33 Fathers slain at Raithu: Hieromartyrs 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 c.); Venerable Stephen, Abbot of Chenolakkos Monastery in Triglia, near Chalcedon (716); Saint Felix of Nola, Confessor of Nola in Italy (ca.250); Saint Euphrasius, a bishop martyred in North Africa by the Arian Vandals; Saint Dacius (Datius), Bishop of Milan, exorcist (552); Saint Kentigern (Kentigern Mungo, Kentigern of Glasgow), first Bishop of Strathclyde (Glasgow), Scotland (614) - (see also January 13 - Greek and Western); Saint Sava I of Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Enlightener and First Archbishop of Serbia (1235) - (see also January 12 - Russian); Saint Joannicius of Tarnovo, Metropolitan of Tarnovo in Bulgaria (13th c.); Saint Acacius, Bishop of Tver (1567) - (see also June 29); Saint Meletius (Yakimov), Bishop of Ryazan, Missionary to Yakutia (1900); New Hiero-Confessor John (Kevroletin), Hiero-Schemamonk, of Verkhoturye (1961); New Martyrs slain at Raithu Monastery near Kazan (ca. 1933); New Hieromartyr Ambrose (Gudko), Bishop of Sarapul and Yelabug (1918); New-Martyr Platon (Kulbush), Archbishop of Reval (Estonia) (1919) - (see also January 1); Other Commemorations: Repose of Nicholas Motovilov (1879), disciple of St. Seraphim of Sarov; Repose of Hieromonk Cosmas of Grigoriou, Missionary to Zaire (1989).

( January 1 2026: Julian Calendar )

Feasts: The Circumcision in the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ; Saints: Martyr Theodotus, by the sword; Martyr Basil of Ancyra (362); Saint Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder, bishop and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian (374); Saint Emilia, (mother of Sts. Basil the Great, Macrina the Younger (July 19), Gregory of Nyssa (January 10), Naucratius (June 8), Peter of Sebaste (January 9), and Theosebia the Deaconess (January 10)) (375); Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (379); Saint Theodosius of Tryglia, Abbot; Hieromartyr Concordius of Spoleto (ca. 175); Thirty soldier-martyrs in Rome, under Diocletian (ca.304); Martyr Telemachos (Almachius), killed by gladiators in the Roman amphitheatre (404); Saint Basil, Bishop of Aix en Provence (ca. 475); Saint Eugendus, fourth Abbot of Condat Abbey in the Jura Mountains (510); Saint Fanchea of Killeany (Fanchea of Rossory), sister of St Enda of Aran (ca. 520); Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa (533); Saint Justin of Chieti, bishop of Chieti, Italy (ca. 540); Saint Felix of Bourges, Bishop of Bourges (ca. 580); Saint Connat (Comnatan), Abbess of Kildare Abbey in Ireland (ca. 590); Saint Maelrhys, a saint on Bardsey Island in Wales (6th c.); Saint Clarus, Abbot of St. Marcellus Monastery in Vienne, Gaul (ca. 660); Saint Cúan (Mochua, Moncan), Irish abbot, founder of many churches and monasteries in Ireland, (752); Saint Peter of Atroa (Peter the Standard-Bearer), Abbot, opponent of iconoclasm (837) (see also [[January 3 - East); Saint William of Dijon (William of Volpiano), Italian monastic reformer and architect (1031); Saint Peter Mogila, Metropolitan of Kyiv, Halych and all Rus’, Archimandrite of the Kyivan Caves Lavra (1646) (see also December 31); New Martyr Peter of Tripolis in the Peloponnesus, at Temisi in Asia Minor (1776); Saint Athanasius (Volkhovsky), Bishop of Mohyliv, Wonderworker of Poltava (1801); New Hieromartyr Jeremiah (1918); New Hieromartyrs Platon (Kulbush), Bishop of Tallinn (Revel), Estonia, and with him Protopresbyters Michael (Blaive) and Nicholas (Bezhanitsky) (1919); New Hieromartyrs Alexander (Trapitsyn), Archbishop of Samara, and with him priests: John (Smirnov), Alexander (Ivanov), Alexander (Organov), John (Suldin), Trophimus (Miachin), Viacheslav, Basil and James (1938).

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