January 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Jan. 3 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - Jan. 5

[edit] Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 17 by Old Calendarists

[edit] Saints

• Synaxis of the Seventy Apostles
• Saint Theoctistus, abbot at Cucomo in Sicily
• Martyrs Athanasius the Commentarisius (superintendent of prisoners) and Zosimas the Hermit, anchorites of Cilicia
• Martyrs Euthymia and Chrysanthus
• Saint Euthymius the New, monk
• Martyr and abbot Euthymius, and 12 monks of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos (13th century)
• Saint Eustace of Serbia, first archbishop there (13th century)
• Saint Aquilae, deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (14th century)
• Martyr Onuphrius Manassias of Chilandar Monastery on Mount Athos (1818)
• Saint Gregory of Langres in Gaul

[edit] Other commemorations

• Repose of Symeon of Smolensk, metropolitan (1699)