Ven. Godbearing Anthony the Great
Vigil. Kept with an All-Night Vigil.
Commemorated today
- Our Holy Godbearing Father Anthony the Great (356).d. 356 life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable and God-Bearing Anthony the Great
Anthony entered the Egyptian desert to confront the passions in prayer, but the solitude he sought became a source of counsel, healing, and courage for the entire Church.
- Era
- c. 251–356
- Region
- Egypt
- Category
- Desert Father, monk, ascetic, and father of monasticism
- Feast
- January 17
- George the New Martyr of IoanninaNew 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 Ioannina. 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.
- Pious Emperor Theodosius the Great (395)d. 395
What is known
The year given is 395.
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.
- Our Holy Father Makarios (Kalogeras) of Patmos (1737)d. 1737
What is known
The title places them at Patmos. The year given is 1737.
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 5:15–6:3 continues in 6
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- Matthew 11:27–30
- Hebrews 13:17–21
- Luke 6:17–23
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 17 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 30 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.