Doxology. Kept with the Great Doxology.
Commemorated today
- Holy Martyr Tatiana (c. 230)Martyr · d. c. 230
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The year given is about 230.
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.
- St Sava, Archbishop of SerbiaHierarch life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Sava, First Archbishop of Serbia
A prince who became a monk, Sava built institutions without ceasing to be a man of prayer, giving the Serbian Church an ordered life rooted in the wider communion of Orthodoxy.
- Era
- c. 1174–1236
- Region
- Serbia, Mount Athos, Nicaea, the Holy Land, and Bulgaria
- Category
- Monk, first Archbishop of Serbia, teacher, and diplomat
- Feast
- January 14; January 27 on the civil calendar where the Julian calendar is followed
- Venerable Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth (689-690)Monastic
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 title places them at Wearmouth.
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.
- Basil and John the HieromartyrsHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
What is known
A hieromartyr was a bishop, priest or deacon killed for the faith. The clergy were often taken first in a persecution, because removing them scattered the community that depended on them.
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.
- Martyr MertiosMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
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.
- Euthasia the Virgin-MartyrMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
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.
- Peter of Absalom
What is known
The title places them at Absalom. 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
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 12 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 25 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.