Commemoration. A commemoration with its own hymns at Vespers.
Commemorated today
- Translation of the relics of Ignatius the GodbearerTranslation of relics
What is known
A translation is the moving of a saint's relics from one resting place to another, often into a church built for them. The Church keeps the day of the move as well as the day of the death.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- St Andrei Rublev, iconographer (1430)d. 1430
What is known
The year given is 1430.
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 Laurence, Recluse of the Kiev Caves
What is known
The title places them at Kiev Caves.
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.
- Gildas the Wise
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.
- Our Holy Father Aphrahat the Persian (4th century)4th century
What is known
The year given is the 4th century.
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.
- Repose of Blessed Father Dimitrios Gagastathis (1975)Blessed · Repose · 1975
What is known
Blessed is used in the Slavic tradition both for the fools for Christ and, more loosely, as an honorific for saints whose veneration is local or recent.
The year given is 1975.
What is kept today is this event in particular rather than the whole life behind it, and of that life no account survives here that could be checked.
- Ignatius and Nicandrus of Sinai
What is known
The title places them at Sinai. 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 29 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on February 11 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.