January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Dec. 31 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 2

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 14 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Feasts

• The Circumcision of Jesus

[edit] Saints

• Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (379)
• Martyr Basil of Ancyra (362)
• Saint Flugentius, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa
• Martyr Theodotus
• Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, bishop and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian (374)
• Saint Theodosius of Tryglia, abbot
• Martyr Peter of the Peloponnesus (1776)
• New martyrs Platon of Revel, bishop, priest Michael, and priest Nicholas in Estonia (1919)