January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
– Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – January 10
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 27.Feasts
- Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Saints
- Prophet Shemaiah,,
- Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia
- Martyr Antonina of Nicomedia, martyred at sea.
- Martyr Lawrence, martyred in the arena, by the pagans.
- Saint Peter of Sebaste, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia
- Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker, of Tarsus
- Venerable Basil and Gregory the Wonderworkers, uncles of Saint Eustratius
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Virgin-Martyr Paschasia, venerated from ancient times in Dijon in France
- Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and seven other Companions - Twelve martyrs in North Africa, probably under Decian
- Virgin-martyr Marciana of Mauretania, in Mauritania in North Africa
- Saint Marcellinus of Ancona, Bishop of Ancona
- Saint Waningus, Benedictine abbot
- Saint Maurontus, founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France
- Saint Adrian, Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's, in Canterbury
- Saint Brithwald, a monk and then the Abbot of Reculver in Kent, and in 693 becoming the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury
- Saint Foellan, born in Ireland, he accompanied his mother, St Kentigerna, and his relative, St Comgan, to Scotland, where he lived as a monk
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- New Martyr Parthena of Edessa, in Macedonia
- Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of all Russia
- Saint Jonah,, founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev, Wonderworker
- New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest
Other commemorations
- Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople
- Translation of the relics of St. Judoc, hermit of Ponthieu.
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