January 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 23

The Eastern Orthodox cross

All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 4 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For January 22nd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 9.

Saints

• Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles (ca. 96)^[1][2][3][4]
• Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian (628)^{[1][3][5][6][note 2]}
• Martyrs of Adrianople^[1][3][8][9]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Hieromartyr Vincent the Deacon (Vincent of Saragossa), in Valencia under Diocletian (304)^{[10][11][note 3]}
• Martyrs Vincent, Orontius, and Victor, near Girona in Catalonia, Spain (305)^[7][11]
• Saint Vincent of Digne, Bishop of Digne in France (380)^[11]
• Saint Blaesilla, a daughter of St Paula (383)^[11]
• Saint Gaudentius of Novara, Bishop of Novara and Confessor (417)^[7][11]
• Saint Wendreda, Virgin of March, Cambridgeshire (7th century)^[12]
• Saint Dominic of Sora, founder of several monasteries - at Scandrilia, Sora, Sangro, and elsewhere, renowned for miracles (1031)^[7][11]
• Saint Brithwald (Bertwald of Ramsbury), Bishop of Ramsbury (1045)^{[1][11][12][13][14]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Venerable Martyr Anastasius the Deacon of the Kiev Caves Monastery (12th century)^{[1][12][15][16]}
• Venerable Joseph Samakus the Sanctified, of Crete (1511)^{[1][3][12][17]}
• Venerable Macarius, Abbot of Zhabyn (Belev) (1623)^{[1][12][18][19]}
• Saint Ioasaph (Bolotov), Enlightener of Alaska and the American land (1799)^[20][21]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Martyr Gregory of Peć (17th-18th centuries)^{[22][note 4]}
• New Hieromartyrs John, Nicholas, Jacob, Peter, John, John (1938)^[12]
• New Hieromartyrs John Uspensky and Euthymius Tikhonravov,^[21] Priests (1938)^[12][23]

Other commemorations

• Finding of the Holy Icon of "Panagia Eleistria" in Koroni, Messenia (1897)^[24]

Icon gallery

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  Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles.
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  Apostle Timothy, of the Seventy Apostles.
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  Monk-martyr Anastasius the Persian.
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  Hieromartyr Vincent the Deacon (Vincent of Saragossa).

Notes

1. The notation Old Style or (OS) is sometimes used to indicate a date in the Julian Calendar (which is used by churches on the "Old Calendar").
   The notation New Style or (NS), indicates a date in the Revised Julian calendar (which is used by churches on the "New Calendar").
2. "At Rome, at Aquae Salviae, St. Anastasius, a Persian monk, who, after suffering much at Caesarea, in Palestine, from imprisonment, stripes and fetters, had to bear many afflictions from Chosroes, king of Persia, who caused him to be beheaded. He had sent before him to martyrdom seventy of his companions, who were precipitated into rivers. His head was brought to Rome, together with his venerable likeness, by the sight of which the demons are expelled, and diseases cured, as is attested by the Acts of the second council of Nicaea."^[7]
3. "AT Valencia, in Spain, while the wicked Dacian was governor, St. Vincent, deacon and martyr, who, after suffering imprisonment, hunger, the torture, the disjointing of his limbs; after being burned with plates of heated metal and on the gridiron, and tormented in other ways, took his flight to heaven, there to receive the reward of martyrdom. His noble triumph over his sufferings has been elegantly set forth in verse by Prudentius, and highly eulogized by St. Augustine and pope St. Leo."^[7]
4. "St. Gregory of Peć (17th-18th C.) was a young monk of the monastery of the Patriarchate of Peć. He was martyred after refusing to convert to Islam. Miracles began to take place at the place where he was secretly buried by faithful Christians and a small church was later built on the site. Atheist authorities demolished the church and built an institute in the mid-20th century, although the martyr’s incorrupt relics were discovered during the demolishing of the church. His memory will be celebrated on January 22/February 7."^[22]