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6 January

26 commemorations of 6 January in the fixed calendar of the Church, the Menaion. Churches on the Old Calendar keep this day on 19 January of the civil calendar.

In the map: Theophany (Epiphany): January 6

Feasts

Saints

  • Venerable Evagrius of Nitria (415)Ὁ Ὅσιος Εὐάγριοςsynaxarion.gr
  • Venerable Martyr George the Persian (615)Ὁ Ὅσιος Γεώργιος ὁ Πέρσηςsynaxarion.gr

Orthodox saints after the Schism

  • Venerable Macarius of Mount Athos (1431)oca.org
  • Saint Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov (1894)mospat.ru · pravoslavie.ru
  • Saint Laurence the Wonderworker of Chernigov Convent (1950)pravoslavie.ru

New martyrs and confessors

  • New Martyr Assad the Tailor (1218)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἄσσαντ ὁ Ράπτηςsynaxarion.gr
  • New Hieromartyr Romanus, Priest of Lacedemonia, at Constantinople, by the sword (1695)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ρωμανὸς ὁ Λακεδαίμοναςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • New Hieromartyr Andrew Zimin, Archpriest, his wife Lydia, his mother-in-law Domnica, his two daughters, and his servant Maria, of Ussurisk, Siberia (1919)Ὁ Ἅγιος Ἀνδρέας καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ δύο θυγατέρες του καὶ οἱ νεομάρτυρες γυναῖκες Λυδία, Δομνίκη καὶ Μαρίαsynaxarion.gr

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.

  • Martyrs of North-West Africa, burnt at the stake under Septimius Severus (c. 210)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Virgin Martyr Macra, from Rheims in France, martyred in Fismes in Champagne before the persecution under Diocletian began (287)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyr Anastasius, a martyr in Syrmium in Pannonia, now Hungary (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Martyrs Anastasius, Jucundus, Florus, Florianus, Peter, Ratites, Tatia and Tilis, in Syrmium in Pannonia, now Hungary (4th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Hywyn, probably a companion of Saint Cadfan on his return journey from Brittany to Cornwall and Wales; by tradition he founded Aberdaron in Gwynedd (516)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Melaine (Melanius), born in Brittany, he was Bishop of Rennes and succeeded in overcoming idolatry in his diocese (c. 535)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Edeyrn (Eternus), born in Britain, he was hermit and the patron saint of a church in Brittany (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Eigrad (Eugrad), a brother of Saint Samson, he was a disciple of Saint Illtyd and founded a church in Anglesey in Wales (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Schotin (Scarthin), a disciple of Saint David in Wales, lived as a hermit on Mt Mairge in Leix (County Laois) for many years (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Merinus (Mirren of Benchor), a disciple of Dunawd at Bangor in Wales and venerated there and in Brittany (6th century)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Peter of Canterbury, a monk from St Andrew's in Rome, he was one of the first missionaries sent to England (c. 607)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Diman (Dimas, Dima), a monk with Saint Columba and afterwards Bishop of Connor in Ireland (658)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Venerable Wiltrudis, founded the convent of Bergen near Neuburg in Germany (c. 976) and herself became a nun and the first Abbess (986)orthodoxengland.org.uk
  • Saint Frederick of Arras, a monk at St Vanne and later St Vedast Abbey in Arras (1020)orthodoxengland.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 Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam (1824)Ὁ Ὅσιος Νικόλαοςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru
  • Repose of Schemamonk Sergius Yanovsky (1876), disciple of Saint Herman of AlaskaὉ Ὅσιος Σέργιος ὁ ἐκ Ρωσίαςsynaxarion.gr · pravoslavie.ru

The list is January 6 (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.

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