January 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For January 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 4.
Saints
- Venerable Anthony the Great, God-bearing father of monasticism (356)[1][2][3][note 2][note 3]
- Martyr Jonilla and her infant son Turbo (c. 161-180)[5] (see also: January 16)
- Saint Theodosius I the Great, Roman Emperor (395)[1][6][7]
- Venerable Achilles the Confessor, Hermit of Egypt (5th century)[1][8][9]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saints Genulfus (Genou) and Genitus, two monks who lived in Celle-sur-Nahon in France (c. 3rd century)[10]
- Venerable Antony, Merulus and John, three monks at St. Andrew's on the Coelian Hill in Rome (6th century)[10][note 4]
- Saint Nennius (Ninnidh), disciple of Saint Finian of Clonard, reckoned as one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland' (6th century)[10]
- Saint Sulpicius II (Sulpitius II) the Pious (Severus the Pious), Bishop of Bourges (644, 646, or 647)[1][10][note 5]
- Saint Mildgyth of Minster-in-Thanet, a Benedictine nun and later abbess of a Northumbrian convent (c. 676)[10][note 6][note 7]
- Saint Richimirus, under the patronage of the Bishop of Le Mans, he founded the monastery later called Saint-Rigomer-des-Bois (715)[10]
- Saint Joseph of Verona, Bishop of Freising (764)[10][note 8]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Anthony the New Wonderworker of Beroea (Beroia, Veria), Macedonia, Greece, near the Haliacmon river (11th century)[1][12]
- Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot (1147)[1][13]
- Venerable Anthony, Founder of Dymsk Monastery, Novgorod (1224)[1][14][15]
- Saint Anthony, Archbishop of Novgorod (1232)[16]
- Saint Anthony, Founder of Krasny Kholm Monastery, Krasnokholmsky District, Tver Oblast (1481)[1][17][18]
- Venerable Anthony of Meteora (Anthony Kantakouzènos), founder and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (15th century)[19][note 9]
- Venerable Anthony, Founder of Chernoezersk (Chernoezero, Chermoezersk) (Black Lake) Monastery, Novgorod (16th century)[1][20][21]
- Venerable Philotheos of Meteora, second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (16th century)[22]
- Saint Macarius Kalogeras, Hierodeacon of Patmos (1737)[1][23]
- Saint Herman Gomzin, Schema-abbot of Zosima Hermitage (1923)[1]
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
- Repose of Saint Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588)[27] (feast day: October 26)
- Repose of Archimandrite Tikhon Bogoslovtsev of Inkerman (1950)[1]
- Repose of Bishop Sava SaraÄeviÄ of Edmonton (1973)[1]
Icon gallery
Venerable Anthony the Great
(16th-century icon)
Saint Sulpicius II Pius, Bishop of Bourges.
Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot.
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Notes
- 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"). - "IN Thebais, St. Anthony, abbot and spiritual guide of many monks. He was most celebrated for his life and miracles, of which St. Athanasius has written a detailed account. His sacred body was found by divine revelation, during the reign of the emperor Justinian, and brought to Alexandria, where it was buried in the church of St. John the Baptist."[4]
- St. Gregory the Great, who was their Abbot, has left an account of their virtues and miraculous power.
- The youngest of the three holy virgins of Minster-in-Thanet in England - Milburgh, Mildred and Mildgyth.
- "ST. MlLDGYTH was the youngest of the three saintly daughters of Merewald and St. Ermenburga. When her mother returned to Kent, it is probable that Mildgyth accompanied her, as she must then have been of a tender age, and that she remained with her at Minster for some time. Like her sisters, St. Milburga and St. Mildred, she was favoured with a vocation to the religious life, and the place chosen for her retreat was some monastery in the kingdom of Northumbria, the name of which is not known. The ancient record merely says: St. Milgith lies in Northumbria, where her miraculous powers were often exhibited, and still are."[11]
- Venerable Anthony Cantacuzène was the son of Maria Kantakouzene (the daughter of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos), who married Nikephoros II Orsini the Despot of Epirus.