Fast day — no meat, dairy, fish, wine or oil.
Commemorated today
- Holy Martyrs Theopemptus and Theonas (c. 290)Martyr · d. c. 290
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
The year given is about 290.
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 Venerable Mother Syncletike (4th century)Monastic · 4th century
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.
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.
- Gregory of Akrita
What is known
The title places them at Akrita. 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.
- Apollinaria of Egypt
What is known
The title places them at Egypt.
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
- Genesis 1:1–13
- Exodus 14:15–18, 21–23, 27–29
- Exodus 15:22–16:1 continues in 16
- Joshua 3:7–8, 15–17
- 4[2] Kings 2:6–14
- 4[2] Kings 5:9–14
- Isaiah 1:16–20
- Genesis 32:1–10
- Exodus 2:5–10
- Judges 6:36–40
- 3[1] Kings 18:30–39
- 4[2] Kings 2:19–22
- Isaiah 49:8–15
- Isaiah 35:1–10
- Isaiah 55:1–13
- Isaiah 12:3–6
- 1 Corinthians 10:1–4
- Mark 1:9–11
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 5 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on January 18 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.