Commemorated today
- Venerable Xenophon, Mary, and their sons Arcadius and JohnMonastic
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.
- St Ammonas of Egypt, disciple of St Anthony the Great (350)d. 350
What is known
The title places them at Egypt. The year given is 350.
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.
- St Simeon the Elder of Mount Sinai
What is known
The title places them at Mount 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.
- Our Holy Mother Paula of Rome (404)d. 404
What is known
The title places them at Rome. The year given is 404.
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 26 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on February 8 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.