Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Venerable Macarius the GreatMonastic
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.
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 Mark Eugenikos, Metropolitan of Ephesus and Confessor of the Orthodox Faith (1443)Confessor — suffered for the faith but was not killed · d. 1443
What is known
A confessor suffered for the faith and lived: imprisoned, exiled, tortured, stripped of office. The Church honours the witness without requiring the death.
The title places them at Ephesus. The year given is 1443.
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.
- Makarios of Alexandria
What is known
The title places them at Alexandria. 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.
- Arsenius of Corfu
What is known
The title places them at Corfu. 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.
- Removal of the Honorable Relics of Saint Gregory the TheologianRelics life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Gregory the Theologian
A reluctant pastor with a poet’s soul entered a divided capital and proclaimed the Holy Trinity with such clarity that the Church remembers him simply as “the Theologian.”
- Era
- c. 329–c. 390
- Region
- Cappadocia and Constantinople
- Category
- Hierarch, Church Father, poet, and one of the Three Holy Hierarchs
- Feast
- January 25
- Branwallader, Bishop of JerseyHierarch
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 Jersey. 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 19 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on February 1 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.