January 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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January 27 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 29
All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 10 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.[note 1]
For January 28th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 15.
Saints
- Venerable Ephraim the Syrian (373)[1][2][3]
- Venerable Palladius the Hermit of Antioch, Wonderworker (4th century)[1][4][5]
- The Holy Two Martyrs, mother and daughter, by the sword.[6]
- Martyr Charita.[7]
- Venerable Saint Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh (7th century)[1][8][9]
- Venerable James the Ascetic, of Porphyreon (Porphyrianos) in Palestine.[1][10]
- Saint George Ugryn the Martyr (1015), brother of Ephraim of Novotorzhok[11]
- Venerable Ephraim of Novotorzhok, Abbot and Wonderworker, founder of the Sts. Boris and Gleb Monastery (Novotorzhok) (1053)[1][12][13]
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Flavian, a deputy-prefect of Rome, martyred in Civitavecchia in Italy under Diocletian (c. 304)[14]
- Saint Valerius, Bishop of Saragossa in Spain, with whom Saint Vincent served as deacon (315)[14]
- Saint Cannera (Cainder, Kinnera), Virgin recluse on the Isle of Inis Cathaig, Co. Clare and of Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland (c. 530)[14][note 2]
- Saint John of Reomans (John of Reomay (Réomé)), in Gaul (544)[1][14][note 3]
- Saints Brigid and Maura, daughters of a Scottish Chieftain, Martyrs in Picardy while on pilgrimage to Rome.[14]
- Saint Antimus, one of the first Abbots of Brantôme in France (8th century)
- Saint Glastian, patron saint of Kinglassie in Fife in Scotland (830)[14][note 4]
- Saint Odo of Beauvais, Bishop of Beauvais (880)[14][note 5]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl (c. 1098)[1][15][16]
- Venerable Theodosius, founder of Totma Monastery, Vologda Oblast (1568)[1][17][18][note 6]
- Saints Archilius and Luarsaab.[19]
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieroconfessor Theodore, Presbyter (1933)[20]
- New Hieroconfessor Arsenius Stadnitsky, Metropolitan of Tashkent and Turkestan (1936)[1]
- New Hieromartyr Ignatius Sadkovsky, Bishop of Skopin (1938)[1][20][note 7]
- New Hieromartyr Vladimir Pishchulin, Priest, at Simferopol (1938)[1][20][note 8]
- New Hieromartyr Bartholomew (Ratnykh), Hieromonk, at Feodosia (Crimea) (1938)[1][20]
- New Martyr Olga Vasilievna Evdokimova, in the gulag (1938)[21][22][23][24]
- New Hieroconfessor Leontius Stasievich, Archimandrite of Jablechna, Poland, who reposed at Mikhailovsk (Ivanovo) (Russia) (1972)[1][20]
Other commemorations
Icon gallery
Venerable Ephraim the Syrian.
Venerable Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh.
Venerable Ephraim of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Pereyaslavl.
Venerable Theodosius, founder of Totma Monastery, Vologda Oblast.
New Hieromartyr Ignatius Sadkovsky, Bishop of Skopin.
New Hieroconfessor Leontius Stasievich.
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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"). - A holy virgin who lived as an anchoress near Bantry in Ireland. She reposed after visiting St. Senan and receiving communion. She was buried on St. Senan's island off Enniscorthy.
- Born in Dijon in France, he became a hermit in Reomay. When disciples gathered around him, he fled and became a monk at Lérins. Here he learnt the traditions of St. Macarius and on his return to Reomay, he and the monastery he founded there lived according to them.
- He made peace between the Picts and the Scots.
- Born near Beauvais in France, he gave up a military career to become a monk at Corbie. In 861 he became a very influential Bishop of Beauvais.
- See: (in Russian): Феодосий Тотемский. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- See: (in Russian): Игнатий (Садковский). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- See: (in Russian): Владимир (Пищулин). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).