January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Martyrs Ananias the priest, Peter the prison guard, and seven soldiers, in Phoenicia (295)[http://orthochristian.com/calendar/20180126.html January 26 / February 8]. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1901/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ἅγιοι Ἀνανίας, Πέτρος καὶ οἱ ἑπτὰ στρατιῶτες μάρτυρες]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26/100320-presbyter-ananias-in-phoenicia Presbyter Ananias in Phoenicia]. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
• The Holy Two Martys of Phrygia.Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1902/sxsaintinfo.aspx Οἱ Ἅγιοι Δύο Μάρτυρες]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.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. 10.
• Venerable Ammon of Egypt (350), disciple of St. Anthony the Great.Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1903/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀμμωνᾶς]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Venerable Symeon "the Ancient" of Mount Sinai (ca. 390)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1900/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Συμεὼν ὁ Παλαιός]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26/100323-st-simeon-ldquothe-ancientrdquo-of-mt-sinai St Simeon “the Ancient” of Mt. Sinai]. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
• Saint Paula of Rome (Paula of Palestine), monastic foundress in Palestine (404)[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/January/26-08.htm St. Paula of Palestine (404)]. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).{{#tag:ref|A Roman lady of noble birth, she married a patrician and had five children, among them St Eustochium and St Blaesilla. Left a widow when she was thirty-two, she presided for twenty years over the sisterhood she had founded in Bethlehem. She also established a guest house for pilgrims there.[http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdjan.htm January 26]. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.|group=note}}{{#tag:ref|"At Bethlehem of Juda, the demise of St. Paula, widow, mother of St. Eustochium, virgin of Christ, who abandoned her worldly prospects, though she was descended from a noble line of senators, distributed her goods to the poor, and retired to the manger of our Lord, where, adorned with many virtues, and crowned with a long martyrdom, she departed for the kingdom of heaven. Her admirable life was written by St. Jerome."[https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft 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. 26–27.|group=note}}
• Venerable Gabriel, Abbot of the monastery of Saint Stephanos in Jerusalem (ca. 490)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1905/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Γαβριήλ]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Venerable Xenophon and his wife Mary, and their two sons Sts. Arcadius and John, of Constantinople (6th century)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1899/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ξενοφῶν μετὰ τῆς συμβίου του Μαρίας καὶ τῶν τέκνων Ἀρκαδίου καὶ Ἰωάννου]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26/100314-venerable-xenophon-of-constantinople Venerable Xenophon of Constantinople]. OCA - Lives of the Saints.{{in lang|el}} Συναξαριστής. [http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/synaxaire/synaxari.asp?minas=1&id=146 26 Ιανουαρίου] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720141525/http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/synaxaire/synaxari.asp?minas=1&id=146 |date=2022-07-20 }}. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).{{#tag:ref|Not to be confused with Venerable Xenophon (celebrated on April 24), † 1018, the builder of the Xenophontos monastery.|group=note}}{{#tag:ref|Name day celebrated today includes:

:* Xenophon (Ξενοφῶν).|group=note}}

• Saint Conon, Bishop and monastic founder on the Isle of Man (648)
• Saint Theofrid (Theofroy), a monk at Luxeuil in France who became Abbot of Corbie, and a Bishop (ca. 690)
• Saint Athanasius, honoured as a bishop in Sorrento in the south of Italy.
• Saint Alphonsus of Astorga, Bishop of Astorga in Spain (9th century){{#tag:ref|Bishop of Astorga in Spain, he went to live as a simple monk at the monastery of St Stephen de Ribas de Sil in Spanish Galicia.|group=note}}
• Saint Ansurius (Aduri, Asurius, Isauri), Bishop of Orense in Galicia (925){{#tag:ref|Bishop of Orense in Galicia, he helped found the monastery of Ribas de Sil in Spain. He became bishop in 915, but in 922 became a simple monk at the monastery. After his repose he was venerated there, together with seven other bishops who had followed his example.|group=note}}

• Venerable Clement of Mt. Sagmation (1111)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1907/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Κλήμης]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• Saint David the Builder (David III), King of Georgia (1125)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1908/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Δαυΐδ βασιλεὺς τῆς Γεωργίας]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26/100326-blessed-david-iv-the-king-of-georgia Blessed David IV the King of Georgia]. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
• Venerable Xenophon, Abbot of Robeika (Novgorod) (1262){{in lang|ru}} [https://mospat.ru/calendar/2013/02/08 26 января (ст.ст.) 8 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.)]. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26/100319-venerable-xenophon-of-robika Venerable Xenophon of Robika]. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
• Venerable Arcadius of Vyaznikovsky (1592)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1909/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀρκάδιος]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.{{#tag:ref|{{in lang|ru}} Прп. Аркадий Вязниковский (+1592). Also commemorated on the "Synaxis of the Saints of Vladimir" (Собор Владимирских святых), June 23.|group=note}}
• Saint Joseph (Naniescu) of Suceava, Metropolitan of Moldova, Romania (1902)[https://basilica.ro/en/two-new-saints-canonized-by-romanian-orthodox-church/ Two new saints canonized by Romanian Orthodox Church]. BASILICA.RO (Biserica Ortodoxă Română). 06.10.2017.{{#tag:ref|"Metropolitan Iosif Naniescu has been canonized under the name of the Holy Hierarch Joseph the Merciful, the Metropolitan of Moldova, to be celebrated on January 26 (new style)."|group=note}}

• New Nun-martyr Matushka Maria (Lelyanova) of Gatchina (1932)[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2012&today=8&month=2&trp=0&tzo=-4 February 8 / January 26]. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).{{#tag:ref|See: {{in lang|ru}} Мария Гатчинская. Википедии. (Russian Wikipedia).|group=note}} (see also: April 4)
• New Hieromartyr Cyril, Metropolitan of Kazan (1937)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1911/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Κύριλλος ὁ Μάρτυρας Μητροπολίτης Καζάν]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• New Hieromartyr Arcadius (1938)
• Martyr John Popov (1938)

• Commemoration of the Great Earthquake at Constantinople (447-448), during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II (r. 408–450).Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1904/sxsaintinfo.aspx Μνήμη Μεγάλου Σεισμοῦ]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.{{#tag:ref|Both the Constantinian and the original Theodosian walls were severely damaged, in two earthquakes, on 25 September 437 and on 6 November 447.Philippides, Marios; Hanak, Walter K. (2011). The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: Historiography, Topography and Military Studies. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., p. 299. {{ISBN|978-1-4094-1064-5}} The latter was especially powerful, and destroyed large parts of the wall, including 57 towers. Subsequent earthquakes, including another major one in January 448, compounded the damage. Theodosius II ordered the praetorian prefect Constantine to supervise the repairs, made all the more urgent as the city was threatened by the presence of Attila the Hun in the Balkans.|group=note}}
• Translation of the relics (845) of Sts. Theodore the Confessor, Abbot of the Studion (826),{{#tag:ref|November 11.|group=note}} and his brother Joseph the Confessor,{{#tag:ref|July 14.|group=note}} Archbishop of Thessalonica (832)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1906/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ἀνακομιδὴ Τιμίων Λειψάνων Ὁσίου Θεοδώρου τοῦ Στουδίτου]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.[http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26/100318-translation-of-the-relics-of-the-venerable-theodore-the-abbot-of Translation of the relics of the Venerable Theodore the Abbot of Studion]. OCA - Lives of the Saints.
• Repose of Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and St. Petersburg (1801)Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1910/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ἅγιος Γαβριὴλ Μητροπολίτης Νόβγκοροντ καὶ Ἁγίας Πετρούπολης]. 26 Ιανουαρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.

File:Xenophon and his wife, Saint Mary, and their two sons, Arcadius and John, of Constantinople (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|Venerable Xenophon and his wife Mary, and their two sons Sts. Arcadius and John
(Menologion of Basil II)

File:David IV, detail from icon, St. Catherine Monastery.jpg|David IV on 12th century icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery

File:Octav Bancila - Mitropolitul Iosif Naniescu.jpeg|Holy Hierarch Joseph the Merciful, the Metropolitan of Moldova.

File:Мария Гатчинская. Лицо.jpg|New Nun-martyr Matushka Maria (Lelyanova) of Gatchina.

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• [http://orthochristian.com/calendar/20180126.html January 26 / February 8]. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
• [http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/index.php?year=2012&today=8&month=2&trp=0&tzo=-4 February 8 / January 26]. HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
• [http://oca.org/saints/lives/2013/01/26 January 26]. 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. 10.
• [http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/stdjan.htm January 26]. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
• [https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft 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. 26–27.
• Rev. Richard Stanton. [https://archive.org/details/menologyofenglan00stanrich 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. 36.

Greek Sources

• Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/m/1/d/26/sxsaintlist.aspx 26 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ]. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
• {{in lang|el}} Συναξαριστής. [http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/synaxaire/synaxari.asp?minas=1&id=146 26 Ιανουαρίου] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720141525/http://www.ecclesia.gr/greek/synaxaire/synaxari.asp?minas=1&id=146 |date=2022-07-20 }}. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).

Russian Sources

• {{in lang|ru}} [http://www.pravenc.ru/calendar/2015/02/08.html 8 февраля (26 января)]. Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
• {{in lang|ru}} [https://mospat.ru/calendar/2013/02/08 26 января (ст.ст.) 8 февраля 2013 (нов. ст.)]. Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

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