Forefeast of Theophany
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Repose of St Seraphim of SarovRepose life on this site
- St Sylvester, Pope of Rome (335)Hierarch · d. 335
- Venerable Juliana of Lazarevskoye (1604)Monastic · d. 1604
- Holy New Martyr George the Georgian (1770)New Martyr — killed under Ottoman or modern persecution · d. 1770
- Cosmas, Archbishop of ConstantinopleHierarch
- Theagenes the Hieromartyr, Bishop of PariosHieromartyr — a bishop or priest killed for the faith
- Theodota, the Mother of the Holy Anargyroi
- Righteous Mark the DeafRighteous
- Basil the Martyr of AnkyraMartyr
- Theopistos the MartyrMartyr
- Nilos the Sanctified
- Sylvester of the Kiev Caves
Appointed readings
- Wisdom of Solomon 3:1–9
- Wisdom of Solomon 5:15–6:3
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- Matthew 11:27–30
- Galatians 5:22–6:2
- Luke 6:17–23
- Hebrews 5:4–10
- John 3:1–15
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 2 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 15 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.