January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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An Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 31 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]

For January 18th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 5.

Saints

Pre-Schism Western saints

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

New martyrs and confessors

Other commemorations

Icon gallery

  • Saint Athanasius the Great.
    Saint Athanasius the Great.
  • Saint Cyril of Alexandria.
    Saint Cyril of Alexandria.
  • Saints Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria(Menologion of Basil II)
    Saints Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria
    (Menologion of Basil II)
  • Virgin-martyr Prisca.
    Virgin-martyr Prisca.
  • St. Sergius of Radonezh in front of the coffins of his parents: Venerable Schemamonk Cyril and Schemanun Maria.
    St. Sergius of Radonezh in front of the coffins of his parents: Venerable Schemamonk Cyril and Schemanun Maria.
  • Saint Christophoros Panayiotopoulos ("Papoulakos"), missionary monk.
    Saint Christophoros Panayiotopoulos ("Papoulakos"), missionary monk.

Notes

  1. [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. [2]
    Venerable Ephraimios is recorded in Sinai Codex 150.
  3. [3]
    Three holy virgins of the Romagna in Italy who went to Nola in the Campagna in order to escape death, but there too they were accused of being Orthodox, were tortured, taken to Salerno and beheaded.
  4. [4]
    A monk at Bangor in Ireland, he followed St. Columbanus to Burgundy in France, where he helped found the monastery of Luxeuil. Later he founded a second monastery in Lure in the Vosges.
  5. [5]
    "He was an Englishman of great learning and virtue; and preached the faith, first in Germany; afterwards in Sweden, under the pious king Olas II, who first took the title of king of Sweden; for his predecessors had only been styled kings of Upsal. The good bishop converted many to Christ, till in the year 1028, while he was preaching against the idol Tarstans or Thor, and hewing it down with a hatchet, he was slain by the pagans."[16]
  6. [6]
    "In Sweden, the passion of ST. ULFRID, Martyr, who was an Englishman by birth, and went to preach to the pagans of that country. ULFRID, also called Wulfrid, was an Englishman, who, in obedience to a divine inspiration, quitted his native land, to preach the Gospel to the pagans of Sweden. His mission was attended with ample success, and many converts were made to the Faith. In his zeal for the destruction of the kingdom of Satan, in the presence of a multitude of people, he attacked the idol of Thor, and hewed it to pieces with an axe. Upon this, the furious idolaters immediately rushed upon the servant of God, and cruelly put him to death on the spot. They also treated his venerable remains with many insults, and cast them into a marsh, thus leaving them, until in better times Ulfrid was venerated as a Martyr of Christ. The commemoration in the old calendars is on the 18th of January."[17]
  7. [7]
    See: (in Russian) Кирилл и Мария Радонежские. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
  8. [8]
    His glorification was initially proposed by the Metropolis of Kalavryta, of the Church of Greece, with the proposal confirmed by the Greek Holy Synod in May 2023. It was then passed on to the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. He was glorified by the Ecumenical Patriarchate on August 30, 2024. The official communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was as follows:
    (in Greek) "Συνεχιζομένων τῶν ἐργασιῶν τῆς Ἁγίας καί Ἱερᾶς Συνόδου, αὕτη ἀπεφάσισεν ὁμοφώνως ὅπως γένηται δεκτή ἡ εἰσήγησις τῆς Ἁγιωτάτης Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Ἑλλάδος περί κατατάξεως εἰς τό ἁγιολόγιον τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τοῦ μακαριστοῦ μοναχοῦ Χριστοφόρου Παναγιωτοπούλου τοῦ ἐπιλεγομένου Παπουλάκου, τῆς μνήμης αὐτοῦ ἑορταζομένης κατ᾿ ἔτος τήν 18ην Ἰανουαρίου."[31]
  9. [9]
    In 1847, at nearly eighty years of age, the monk Christophoros Panayiotopoulos ("Papoulakos") c. 1770–1861, undertook a popular preaching mission in the villages of Achaea to revitalize the spiritual conditions of the people which were slowly becoming westernized with an Enlightenment ideology, affecting the sociological make up of the newborn Greek state within a decade.[32] Ultimately Papoulakos helped bring the Greek people back to their roots in Orthodoxy and the Christian ideal, for which he suffered much persecution from both the Church and State and died in exile, and is today renowned as a great ascetic and hero of modern Greece.
    "Moving as he did amongst the people and seeing the consequences of the Bavarian government's policies, his preaching turned to contemporary politics. He fiercely denounced the autocephaly and the abolition of ancient metropolitan sees, which left the people shepherd-less. He condemned the dissolution of monasteries, foreign missionaries, and the non-Orthodox schools they had established and the exclusion of the sacred Scriptures (i.e., the Septuagint) from the schools. Behind these acts Papoulakos saw a clear aim: 'It is their purpose to ruin our religion.' And he lists the guilty: the English who controlled the state with their loan; the foreigners, the 'Luthero-Calvinists,' Bavarians and missionaries who were swamping Greece; Kairis, 'who had lit the match;' Pharmakidis, 'who had poured out the poison;' the Synod which had meekly accepted the foreigners' schemes and which Papoulakos calls 'polluted, diabolical, sealed with Armannsperg's seal.' "[32]
  10. [10]
    See: (in Greek) Άγιος Χριστοφόρος Παπουλάκος. Βικιπαίδεια. (Greek Wikipedia).

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