Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

January 01

Saints commemorated, links to lives of Saints,

Feasts, Scripture Readings, rubrics

  1. The Circumcision of Our Lord Jesus Christ
  2. St. Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesaria in Cappadocia.
  3. Martyr Basil of Ancyra.
  4. St. Fulgentius, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa.
  5. Martyr Theodotus.
  6. St. Gregory, Bishop of Nazianzus and father of St. Gregory the Theologian.
  7. St. Theodosius of Tryglia, abbot.
  8. New-martyr Peter of the Peloponnesus.
  9. New-Martyr Bishop Platon of Revel, Estonia, and with him priests Michael and Nicholas (1919).



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