January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Jan. 25 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 27

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 8 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Venerable Xenophon, his wife Mary, and their sons Arcadius and John (5th-6th centuries)
• Saint Symeon "the Ancient" of Mount Sinai (390)
• Martyrs Ananias, presbyter, with Peter and seven soldiers in Phoenicia (284-305)
• Saint Joseph of Thessalonica, bishop, brother of Saint Theodore of Studion, abbot (830)
• Saint Gabriel of Jerusalem, abbot (5th century)
• Saint Ammon, disciple of Saint Anthony the Great
• Saint David III, King of Georgia (1130)
• Russian new martyr Cyril of Kazan, metropolitan bishop (1937)
• Russian new hieromartyr Arcadius (1938)
• Russian new martyr Maria of Gatchina, matushhka (1930)
• Saint Conon, monastic founder on the Isle of Man
• Saint Clement of Mt. Stirion, monk
• Saint Xenophon of Robika, monk

[edit] Other commemorations

• Translation of the relics of venerable Theodore of Studion, abbot (845)
• Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and Peresburg (1801)