January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
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January 29 in Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendars is a feast day and a day of commemoration of saints and martyrs. Although some Orthodox churches use the Revised Julian Calendar and others use the traditional Julian calendar, the fixed commemorations for their respective January 29 are broadly the same, no matter which calendar is used.[a]
| January 28 | January 29 | January 30 |
| January 29 O.S. ≍ February 11 N.S. January 29 N.S ≍ January 16 O.S. | ||
Saints
Pre-Schism Western saints
- Saint Caesarius, a deacon in Angoulême in France under its first bishop St Ausonius (1st century)[17]
- Hieromartyr Constantius of Perugia, first Bishop of Perugia, and Companions (170)[6][17][18][f]
- Martyr Sabinian of Troyes (275)[6][17][19]
- Martyrs Papias and Maurus, soldiers martyred in Rome under Maximian (ca. 303)[17][20][g]
- Saint Valerius, second Bishop of Trier in Germany (ca. 320)[17]
- Saint Blath (Flora), a cook at St Brigid's convent in Kildare where she was honoured as a holy woman (523)[17]
- Saint Gildas the Wise, Abbot, of Rhuys, Brittany (ca. 570)[4][17][21][22]
- Saint Severus (Sulpitius I of Bourges, Sulpicius Severus), Bishop of Bourges (591)[4][17][h]
- Saint Dallán Forgaill (of Cluain Dallain), a relative of St Aidan of Ferns, born in Connaught, martyred at Inis-coel by pirates (598)[17]
- Saint Aquilinus of Mediolanum (Milan), martyred by the Arians (650)[17][23][i]
- Saint Voloc, a bishop from Ireland who worked in Scotland (ca. 724)[17]
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
- Venerable Ignatios the Sinaite, of Rethymno, Crete.[24][25]
- Venerable Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Turov (1194)[4][26][27][j]
- Saint Ignatius, Bishop of Smolensk (1210)[4][15][28][k]
- Saint Andrei Rublev, iconographer, of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery (Moscow) (1430)[4][15]
- Saints Gerasimus (1441),[29] Pitirim (1455),[30] and Jonah (1470),[31] Bishops of Perm.[4][15][32]
- New Martyr Demetrius of Chios, at Constantinople (1802)[3][4][33]
- Saint Demetrios Gagastathis (Papa-Demetrios Gagastathis), "Man-of-God", of the St. Nicholas Church in Platanos, Trikala (gr), Greece (1975)[34][35][36][l][m] (see also: January 16 - O.S.)
New martyrs and confessors
Other commemorations
- Translation of the relics (5th century) of Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107)[4][38][39][40]
- Synaxis of All Saints of Yekaterinburg.[15][38][o]
Icon gallery
Saint Barsimaeus the Confessor, Hieromartyr Bishop of Edessa.
Saint Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot Kurapalates), first Bagrationi King of Georgia.
Venerable Laurence, recluse of the Kiev Caves and Bishop of Turov.
Andrei Rublev's famous icon of the Trinity.
Saints Gerasimus (1441), Pitirim (1455), and Jonah (1470), Bishops of Perm.
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Notes
- Despite the dates being the same, the days to which they refer typically differ by 13 days. January 29 according to the old Julian calendar is the same day as February 11 according to the new Revised Julian Calendar. The notation Old Style or O.S. is sometimes used to indicate a date in the traditional Julian Calendar (the "Old Calendar"). The notation New Style or N.S, indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (the "New Calendar").
- "At Edessa, in Syria, the holy martyrs Sarbelius and his sister Barbea, who were baptized by the blessed bishop Barsimaeus, and crowned with martyrdom in the persecution of Trajan, under the governor Lysias."[6]
- (in Greek): Φιλόθεος, Ὑπερέχιος, Ἄβιβος, Ἰουλιανός, Ρωμανός, Ἰάκωβος καὶ Παρηγόριος.
- Eustratiades postulates that this is the same martyr as the Acepsimas venerated on December 7 together with Isidore and Leo.
- Constantius, first Bishop of Perugia in Italy, was martyred with numerous members of his flock under Marcus Aurelius.
- "At Rome, on the Nomentan road, the birthday of the holy martyrs Papius and Maurus, soldiers under the emperor Diocletian. At their first confession of Christ their mouths were bruised with stones and they were thrown into prison by order of Laodicius, prefect of the city. Afterwards they were beaten with rods and with leaded whips until they expired."[6]
- See: (in Russian): Лаврентий (епископ Туровский). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- See: (in Russian): Игнатий II (епископ Смоленский). Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- He was formally glorified by the Ecumenical Patriarchate on August 31, 2025. The official communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was as follows:
(in Greek) "Τό ἑσπέρας τοῦ Σαββάτου, ὑπεγράφη ὑπό τῆς Α. Θ. Παναγιότητος, τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριάρχου κ. κ. Βαρθολομαίου καί τῶν ἁγίων Συνοδικῶν Ἀρχιερέων, εἰς εἰδικήν πρός τοῦτο Ἱεράν Ἀκολουθίαν, ἐν τῷ Πανσέπτῳ Πατριαρχικῶ Ναῷ τοῦ Ἁγίου Μεγαλομάρτυρος Γεωργίου τοῦ Τροπαιοφόρου, ἡ ἐν τῷ Ἱερῷ Κώδικι τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ Μεγάλης Ἐκκλησίας καταστρωθεῖσα Πατριαρχική καί Συνοδική Πρᾶξις Ἁγιοκατάξεως τοῦ μακαρίου Πρεσβυτέρου Δημητρίου Γκαγκαστάθη."[36]
- He was eulogized in 1975 by Abbot Emilianos (Vafidis) of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, as a simple married priest who, he said, "walked among us but his 'association was in the heavens'" [Philippians 3:20].[37]
- See: (in Russian): Гранитов, Иван Михайлович. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).
- See: (in Russian): Собор Екатеринбургских святых. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).