January 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 23

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For January 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 9.

Saints

• Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles (ca. 96)[1][2][3][4]
• Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian (628)[1][3][5][6][note 2]
• Martyrs of Adrianople[1][3][8][9]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Vincent the Deacon (Vincent of Saragossa), in Valencia under Diocletian (304)[10][11][note 3]
• Martyrs Vincent, Orontius, and Victor, near Girona in Catalonia, Spain (305)[7][11]
• Saint Vincent of Digne, Bishop of Digne in France (380)[11]
• Saint Blaesilla, a daughter of St Paula (383)[11]
• Saint Gaudentius of Novara, Bishop of Novara and Confessor (417)[7][11]
• Saint Wendreda, Virgin of March, Cambridgeshire (7th century)[12]
• Saint Dominic of Sora, founder of several monasteries - at Scandrilia, Sora, Sangro, and elsewhere, renowned for miracles (1031)[7][11]
• Saint Brithwald (Bertwald of Ramsbury), Bishop of Ramsbury (1045)[1][11][12][13][14]

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Martyr Anastasius the Deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th century)[1][12][15][16]
• Venerable Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511)[1][3][12][17]
• Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Zhabyn (Belev) (1623)[1][12][18][19]
• Saint Ioasaph (Bolotov), Enlightener of Alaska and the American land (1799)[20][21]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyr Gregory of Peć (17th-18th centuries)[22][note 4]
• New Hieromartyrs John, Nicholas, Jacob, Peter, John, John (1938)[12]
• New Hieromartyrs John Uspensky and Euthymius Tikhonravov,[21] Priests (1938)[12][23]

Other commemorations

• Finding of the Holy Icon of "Panagia Eleistria" in Koroni, Messenia (1897)[24]

Icon gallery

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  Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles.
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  Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles.
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  Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian.
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  Hieromartyr Vincent the Deacon (Vincent of Saragossa).

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "At Rome, at Aquae Salviae, St. Anastasius, a Persian monk, who, after suffering much at Caesarea, in Palestine, from imprisonment, stripes and fetters, had to bear many afflictions from Chosroes, king of Persia, who caused him to be beheaded. He had sent before him to martyrdom seventy of his companions, who were precipitated into rivers. His head was brought to Rome, together with his venerable likeness, by the sight of which the demons are expelled, and diseases cured, as is attested by the Acts of the second council of Nicaea."[7]
3. "AT Valencia, in Spain, while the wicked Dacian was governor, St. Vincent, deacon and martyr, who, after suffering imprisonment, hunger, the torture, the disjointing of his limbs; after being burned with plates of heated metal and on the gridiron, and tormented in other ways, took his flight to heaven, there to receive the reward of martyrdom. His noble triumph over his sufferings has been elegantly set forth in verse by Prudentius, and highly eulogized by St. Augustine and pope St. Leo."[7]
4. "St. Gregory of Peć (17th-18th C.) was a young monk of the monastery of the Patriarchate of Peć. He was martyred after refusing to convert to Islam. Miracles began to take place at the place where he was secretly buried by faithful Christians and a small church was later built on the site. Atheist authorities demolished the church and built an institute in the mid-20th century, although the martyr’s incorrupt relics were discovered during the demolishing of the church. His memory will be celebrated on January 22/February 7."[22]

References

1. January 22 / February 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
2. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Τιμόθεος ὁ Ἀπόστολος. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
3. (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
4. Apostle Timothy of the Seventy. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
5. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀναστάσιος ὁ Ὁσιομάρτυρας ὁ Πέρσης. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. Monkmartyr Anastasius the Persian. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
7. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 22–23.
8. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Οἱ Ἅγιοι Μανουὴλ, Γεώργιος, Πέτρος, Λέων, Σιώνιος, Γαβριήλ, Ἰωάννης, Λέων, Πάροδος καὶ ἄλλοι τριακόσιοι ἑβδομήντα ἑπτὰ Μάρτυρες. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. 377 Martyred Companions in Bulgaria. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
10. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Βικέντιος ὁ Διάκονος. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. January 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
12. February 4 / January 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
13. St Brihtwald of Wilton. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
14. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 31-32.
15. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀναστάσιος ὁ Διάκονος. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
16. Monkmartyr Anastasius the Deacon of the Kiev Near Caves. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
17. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἰωσὴφ ὁ Ἡγιασμένος ὁ ἐν Κρήτῃ. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Μακάριος ἐκ Ρωσίας. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
19. Venerable Macarius of Zhabyn the Wonderworker. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
20. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἰωάσαφ Φωτιστὴς τῆς Ἀλάσκας. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
21. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 9.
22. SERBIAN CHURCH CANONIZES THREE MARTYRS. Orthodox Christianity. May 11, 2018.
23. (in Russian) 22 января (ст.ст.) 4 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
24. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Εὕρεσις Ἱερᾶς Εἰκόνας Παναγίας Ἐλεηστρίας Κορώνης. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• January 22 / February 4. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• February 4 / January 22. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 22. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 9.
• January 22. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 22–23.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. pp. 31–32.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 22 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 22 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 4 февраля (22 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 22 января (ст.ст.) 4 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).