Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Righteous Hierodeacon Makarios of KalogerasRighteous
What is known
The righteous are lay men and women commemorated for holiness in ordinary life rather than for martyrdom or monastic vows.
The title places them at Kalogeras. 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.
- Veneration of Chains of Apostle PeterApostle life on this site
The life we have written
Holy Apostle Peter
The fisherman who spoke first and thought later, denied Christ to a servant girl in a courtyard, and was given the sheep anyway.
- Era
- First century, died at Rome in the 60s
- Region
- Bethsaida and Capernaum, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Rome
- Category
- Apostle, chief of the apostles, and martyr
- Principal feast for this profile
- June 29, with the Apostle Paul
- Romilo the Monk of Mount AthosMonastic
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 Mount Athos. 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.
- Nicholas the New-Martyr of MytileneNew 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 Mytilene. 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.
- Peusippos, Elasippos, and Mesippos the siblings, and their grandmother Neonilla
What is known
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 16 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 29 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.