January 8 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – January 10
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 22 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 9th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 27.
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Feasts
Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Saints
Prophet Shemaiah (Samaia, Sameas, Semeias), (III Kings 12:22), (10th century BC) (Russian use only, see also: January 8 - Standard use)
Martyr Polyeuctus of Melitene in Armenia (259)
Martyr Antonina of Nicomedia, martyred at sea
Martyr Lawrence, martyred in the arena, by the pagans
Saint Peter, Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, brother of Saints Macrina the Younger, Basil the Great, Naucratius, and Gregory of Nyssa, and Blessed Theosebia (c. 395)
Saint Eustratius the Wonderworker of Tarsus (821)
Venerable Basil and Gregory the Wonderworkers, uncles of Saint Eustratius (9th century)
Pre-Schism Western saints
Virgin Martyr Paschasia, venerated from ancient times in Dijon, France (c. 178)
Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and seven other Companions - Twelve martyrs in North Africa, probably under Decian (c. 250)
Virgin Martyr Marciana of Mauretania, in Mauritania in North Africa (c. 303)
Saint Marcellinus of Ancona, Bishop of Ancona (566)
Saint Waningus (Vaneng), Benedictine abbot (c. 686)
Saint Maurontus (Maurontius, Mauruntius), founder of the monastery of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire in France (c. 700)
Saint Adrian, Abbot of Sts Peter and Paul, later called St Augustine's, in Canterbury (710)
Saint Berhtwald (Brithwald, Brihtwald), a monk and then the Abbot of Reculver in Kent, and in 693 becoming the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury (731)
Saint Fillan (Foelan, Foellan, Foilan), Abbot of Strath Fillan, born in Ireland, he accompanied his mother, Saint Kentigerna, and his relative, Saint Comgan, to Scotland, where he lived as a monk (8th century)
Post-Schism Orthodox saints
Venerable Saint Jonah (Miroshnichenko) of Kiev (Peter in Schema), Wonderworker, founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1902)
Elder Bessarion of Agathonos (1991)
New martyrs and confessors
New Martyr Parthena of Edessa, Macedonia (1375)
New Hieromartyr Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of all Russia (1569)
New Hieromartyr Paul Nikolsky, Priest (1943)
New Hieromartyr Mihailo Barbich, Priest of Krtoli (c. 1946)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the great earthquake at Constantinople (869)
Translation of the relics (903) of Saint Judoc, Hermit of Ponthieu