January 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

January 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 18

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.^{[note 1]}

For January 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 4.

Saints

• Venerable Anthony the Great, God-bearing father of monasticism (356)^{[1][2][3][note 2][note 3]}
• Martyr Jonilla and her infant son Turbo (c. 161-180)^[5] (see also: January 16 )
• Saint Theodosius the Great, Roman Emperor (395)^[1][6][7]
• Venerable Achilles the Confessor, hermit of Egypt (5th century)^[1][8][9]
• Venerable Anthony the New Wonderworker, of Veria in Greece, near the Haliacmon river (11th century)^[1][10]

Pre-Schism Western saints

• Saints Genulfus (Genou) and Genitus, two monks who lived in Celle-sur-Nahon in France (c. 3rd century)^[11]
• Venerable Antony, Merulus and John, three monks at St Andrew's on the Coelian Hill in Rome (6th century)^{[11][note 4]}
• Saint Nennius (Ninnidh), disciple of St Finian of Clonard, reckoned as one of the 'Twelve Apostles of Ireland' (6th century)^[11]
• Saint Sulpicius II Pius (Severus the Pious), Bishop of Bourges (647)^{[1][11][note 5]}
• Saint Mildgyth, a Benedictine nun and later abbess of a Northumbrian convent (c. 676)^{[11][note 6][note 7]}
• Saint Richimirus, under the patronage of the Bishop of Le Mans, he founded the monastery later called Saint-Rigomer-des-Bois (715)^[11]
• Saint Joseph of Freising, Bishop of Freising (764)^{[11][note 8]}

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

• Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot (1147)^[1][13]
• Saint Anthony, Abbot of Dymsk in Novgorod (1224)^[1][14][15]
• Saint Anthony, archbishop of Novgorod (1232)^[16]
• Saint Anthony of Chernoezersk (Anthony of Black Lake), monk (c. 14th century)^[1][17][18]
• Saint Anthony of Krasny Kholm, monk (1481)^[1][19][20]
• Venerable Anthony of Meteora (Anthony Kantakouzènos), founder and Abbot of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (15th century)^{[21][note 9]}
• Venerable Philotheos of Meteora, second founder of the Monastery of St. Stephen at Meteora (16th century)^[22]
• Saint Macarius (Kalogeras), Hierodeacon, of Patmos (1737)^[1][23]
• New Martyr George of Ioannina (1838)^[1][24]

New martyrs and confessors

• New Hieromartyr Victor Evropeytsev, Priest (1931)^[25][26]
• New Hieromartyr Paul Uspensky, Priest (1938)^[25][26]

Other commemorations

• Repose of St. Anthony, Bishop of Vologda (1588)^[27] (Feast day October 26)
• Repose of Schema-abbot Herman of Zosima Hermitage (1923)^[1]
• Repose of Archimandrite Tikhon (Bogoslovtsev) of Inkerman (1950)^[1]
• Repose of Bishop Sava (Sarachevich) of Edmonton (1973)^[1]

Icon gallery

• 
  Venerable Anthony the Great
  (16th-century icon)
• 
  Saint Sulpicius II Pius, Bishop of Bourges
• 
  Saint Anthony the Roman of Novgorod, Abbot

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. "IN Thebais, St. Anthony, abbot and spiritual guide of many monks. He was most celebrated for his life and miracles, of which St. Athanasius has written a detailed account. His sacred body was found by divine revelation, during the reign of the emperor Justinian, and brought to Alexandria, where it was buried in the church of St. John the Baptist."^[4]
3. Name days celebrated today include:

   • Anthony, Antonios, Andonis, Tony (Ἀντώνιος);
   • Antonia, Tonia, Tanya (Ἀντωνία).
4. St Gregory the Great, who was their Abbot, has left an account of their virtues and miraculous power.
5. "At Bourges, the demise of St. Sulpicius, surnamed Pius, whose life and precious death are adorned with glorious miracles."^[4]
6. The youngest of the three holy virgins of Minster-in-Thanet in England - Milburgh, Mildred and Mildgyth.
7. "ST. MlLDGYTH was the youngest of the three saintly daughters of Merewald and St Ermenburga. When her mother returned to Kent, it is probable that Mildgyth accompanied her, as she must then have been of a tender age, and that she remained with her at Minster for some time. Like her sisters, St. Milburga and St. Mildred, she was favoured with a vocation to the religious life, and the place chosen for her retreat was some monastery in the kingdom of Northumbria, the name of which is not known. The ancient record merely says: St. Milgith lies in Northumbria, where her miraculous powers were often exhibited, and still are."^[12]
8. A monk who in 752 founded the monastery of St Zeno at Isen. In 764 he became third Bishop of Freising in Germany. His relics are in Isen.
9. Venerable Anthony Cantacuzène was the son of Maria Kantakouzene (the daughter of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos), who married Nikephoros II Orsini the Despot of Epirus.

References

1. January 17/January 30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
2. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Μέγας. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
3. Venerable and God-bearing Father Anthony the Great. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
4. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp.17-18.
5. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ἡ Ἁγία Ἰουνίλλα καὶ τὸ βρέφος της Τούρβων. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
6. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Θεοδόσιος ὁ Μέγας ὁ βασιλεύς. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
7. Emperor Theodosius the Great. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
8. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀχιλλᾶς. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
9. St Achilles the Confessor. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
10. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος ὁ Νέος ὁ Θαυματουργὸς. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
11. January 17. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
12. Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. London: Burns & Oates, 1892. p.24
13. The Monk Anthony the Roman. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
14. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νόβγκοροντ Ρωσίας. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
15. Venerable Anthony of Dymsk, Novgorod. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
16. "АНТОНИЙ НОВГОРОДСКИЙ - Древо". drevo-info.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-07-20.
17. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος τοῦ Τσερνοεζέρσκιζ. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
18. Venerable Anthony of Chernoezero. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
19. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος τοῦ Κρασνοχόλμκιζ. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
20. St Anthony of Krasny Kholm. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
21. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀντώνιος Καντακουζηνός. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
22. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ὅσιος Φιλόθεος. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
23. St. Macarius Kalogeras, hierodeacon of Patmos (1737). HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
24. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Γεώργιος ὁ Νεομάρτυρας ἐξ Ἰωαννίνων. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
25. January 30 / January 17. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
26. (in Russian) 17 января (ст.ст.) 30 января 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).
27. Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀντώνιος Ἐπίσκοπος Βολογκντὰ τῆς Ρωσίας. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

Sources

• January 17/January 30. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• January 30 / January 17. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• January 17. OCA - The Lives of the Saints.
• The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 8.
• January 17. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome in 1914. Revised Edition, with the Imprimatur of His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. pp. 17–18.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: (in Greek) 17 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• (in Greek) Συναξαριστής. 17 Ιανουαρίου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• (in Russian) 30 января (17 января). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• (in Russian) 17 января (ст.ст.) 30 января 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).