3 January
24 commemorations of 3 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 16 January of the civil calendar.
In the map: The Prophet Malachi
Feasts
- Forefeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christorthochristian.com · pravoslavie.ru
Saints
- Holy Prophet Malachi (c. 400 BC)Ὁ Προφήτης Μαλαχίαςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Martyr Peter, in Avlona (Aulane) of Samaria, Palestine (311)Ὁ Ἅγιος Πέτρος ὁ Μάρτυραςsynaxarion.gr
- Martyr Gordius, at Caesarea in Cappadocia, centurion, by the sword (c. 314)Ὁ Ἅγιος Γόρδιοςsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
- Hieromartyr Titus, Bishop of Tomis (323)doxologia.ro
- Venerable Meliton of Beirut (537)Ὁ Ὅσιος Μελίτων ἐκ Βηρυτοῦsynaxarion.gr
- Venerable Peter of Atroa (Peter the Standard-Bearer) (837)Ὁ Ὅσιος Πέτρος ὁ Σημειοφόροςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Venerable Acacius the Wonderworker, of Mount Latros (Latmos), at the Megisti Lavra of the Theotokos of Myrsinon (c. 10th century)Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀκάκιος ὁ Θαυματουργόςsynaxarion.gr
- 3 Martyrs, a mother and her two children slain by fireΟἱ Ἅγιοι Μητέρα καὶ τὰ δύο τέκνα της οἱ Μάρτυρεςsynaxarion.gr
- Saint Thomais of Lesbos (10th century)Ἡ Ὁσία Θωμαΐς ἐκ Λέσβουsynaxarion.gr · drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
Orthodox saints after the Schism
- Righteous Ekvtime (Euthymius) Takaishvili the Man of God of Tbilisi (1953)oca.org · pravoslavie.ru
New martyrs and confessors
- New Hieromartyr Basil Kholmogorov, Archpriest, of Ostrov, Moscow (1938)drevo-info.ru · pravoslavie.ru
Saints of the West before the Schism
Saints of the Latin West before the Schism of 1054. The Orthodox Church honours the saints of the undivided Church, though few of these are in the Greek or Slavic Menaia; this list follows the calendars kept by the Orthodox in the West.
- Hieromartyr Daniel of Padua, a Deacon who helped Saint Prosdocimus, the first Bishop of Padua in Italy (168)orthodoxengland.org.uk · Roman Martyrology
- Saint Anterus, Pope of Rome (236)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Hieromartyr Florentius of Vienne, a martyred Bishop of Vienne in France (3rd century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Venerable Genevieve of Paris (502)Ἡ Ὁσία Γενεβιέβη ἐκ Παρισίωνsynaxarion.gr · oca.org · orthochristian.com · patriarchia.ru · Roman Martyrology · orthodoxengland.org.uk · pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Fintan of Doon, a disciple of Saint Comgall at Bangor in Ireland; he is honoured as the patron-saint of Doon in Limerick where his holy well still exists (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Finlugh of Derry (Finlag), a brother of Saint Fintan of Doon, he went to Scotland where he became one of Saint Columba's disciples; returning to... (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Blitmund, a monk at Bobbio Abbey in Italy (c. 660)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Bertilia of Mareuil, anchoress (c. 687)orthodoxengland.org.uk
- Saint Findlugan of Islay (Finlaggan, Fionn Lugain) (7th century)pravoslavie.ru
- Saint Wenog, an early saint in Walesorthodoxengland.org.uk
Other commemorations
Glorifications, translations of relics, wonderworking icons, and monks and elders remembered on the day, not all of whom are canonized.
- Repose of Schemahierodeacon Elder Panteleimon, founder of Kostychev Convent (1884)Ὁ Ὅσιος Παντελεήμωνsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
- Discovery of the Relics (1950) of the Holy Great Martyr Ephraim, Monk of Nea Makri (1426)oca.org
The list is January 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics), read on 2026-09-25 and adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0: its sections and years, the Greek headings of the Great Synaxaristes where it cites them, and beside each line the sources it names. Names in bold are the saints the day is named for in Greek usage, checked against the Church of Cyprus.