Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Our Holy Father Theodosius the Cenobiarch (519)d. 519
What is known
The year given is 519.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- The Venerable Vitalis (5th century)Monastic · 5th century
What is known
A monastic — the calendar usually says venerable — lived under vows: a monk, nun, hermit, abbot or abbess. This is the largest single group in the Menaion, and for most of them the monastery is the whole of what is recorded.
The year given is the 5th century.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Venerable Michael of Klops, Fool for Christ (1456)Fool for Christ · d. 1456
What is known
A fool for Christ took on the appearance of madness on purpose, to refuse the honour the world pays to piety and to say things nobody else could say safely. It is a rare and deliberately unsettling vocation, and the Church has always treated it cautiously.
The title places them at Klops. The year given is 1456.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- Nikephoros the New Martyr of CreteNew Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution
What is known
A new martyr died in one of the later persecutions rather than the Roman ones — most often under Ottoman rule, or in the twentieth century under Soviet and other modern regimes. The word new distinguishes the era, not the manner.
The title places them at Crete. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
Appointed readings
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3 continues in 6
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- Luke 6:17–23
- 2 Corinthians 4:6–15
- Matthew 11:27–30
- Hebrews 13:7–16
- Luke 4:1–15
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 11 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 24 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.