Leavetaking of Theophany
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- St Nino of Georgia life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Nina, Enlightener of Georgia
An unarmed Christian woman carrying a cross of grapevines became the human instrument through whom an ancient kingdom received the Gospel, showing that apostolic mission begins in prayer, holiness, and patient personal witness.
- Era
- Fourth century; traditionally c. 296–c. 338
- Region
- Cappadocia and the kingdom of Iberia, in present-day Georgia
- Category
- Missionary and Equal-to-the-Apostles
- Feast
- January 14
- Our Holy Father Sava (Sabbas), Enlightener and first Archbishop of Serbia (1236)Hierarch · d. 1236
What is known
A hierarch is a bishop — including patriarchs, metropolitans and archbishops. The Church commemorates bishops in this rank whether they are remembered chiefly for teaching, for governing, or for holding a see through a difficult century.
The title places them at Serbia. The year given is 1236.
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 Holy Fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu (4th – 5th c.)
What is known
The title places them at Sinai.
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.
- Plato the Hieromartyr, Bishop of Tallini and all Estonia, and the Priest Martyrs Michael and NicholasHieromartyr — 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.
The title places them at Tallini. 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.
- Agnes 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.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 14 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 27 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.